Maintenance and broadening of the ocean's salinity distribution by the water cycle

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 9550-9560

  Zika, Jan D ^a   Skliris, Nikolaos ^a   George Nurser, A J ^b   Josey, Simon A ^b   Mudryk, Lawrence ^c   Laliberté, Frédéric ^c   Marsh, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Evaporation; Hydrologic cycle; Precipitation; Salinity; Water masses

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPORATION; MIXING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RANGE FINDING; WATER;

DISTRIBUTION OF WATER; GLOBAL WATER CYCLE; HYDROLOGIC CYCLES; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; SALINITY; SALINITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATE OF THE ART; WATER MASS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPORATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; MIXING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SALINITY; SEAWATER; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; WATER MASS;

EID: 84957707030     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0273.1     Document Type: Article

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