Measuring salinity in ocean water allows researchers to infer important information about climate change and variability, as sea surface salinity can act as a “rain gauge” and is used as an indicator ...

Using a design inspired by one of the ocean's best sailors, a team of scientists at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is developing a low-cost sensor for ocean observations. The sensors are ...

Scientists have long suspected that high salinity levels in the deep ocean were responsible for keeping carbon dioxide locked ...

Brillouin lidar techniques harness the inelastic scattering of light – known as Brillouin scattering – within seawater to derive key physical parameters, notably temperature and salinity. By analysing ...

A continued record-breaking ocean temperature with increasing in stratification and changes in water salinity pattern give insight into what the future holds amidst a perpetually heating climate. The ...

Sept. 9 (UPI) --New analysis of ocean salinity data suggests Earth's water cycle has amplified significantly over the last half-century. The global water cycle has a strong influence on the planet's ...

The paper found that the water in the Southern Ocean has unexpectedly been getting saltier over the last 10 years, a reversal of a trend measured since roughly the 1970s. Its main author told Snopes ...

Stronger El Niño events are more likely when springtime surface waters in the western Pacific Ocean become unusually salty, a ...

Pioneering techniques that use satellites to monitor ocean acidification are set to revolutionise the way that marine biologists and climate scientists study the ocean. This new approach, that will be ...