The physical properties of seawater include both 'thermodynamic properties' like density and freezing point, as well as 'transport properties' like the electrical conductivity and viscosity.

Of the world’s five ocean basins — Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern and Arctic — the Atlantic has the highest salinity, says the National Weather Service. This is because salinity ...

The mission makes global observations of the Earth's surface soil water content and the salt in the oceans. A greater ...

Seawater is known for being quite salty. Salt in the sea, or ocean salinity, is mainly caused by rain washing mineral ions from the land into water. Carbon dioxide in the air dissolves into rainwater, ...

Scientists analyzed Mediterranean salt deposits to uncover the Messinian Salinity Crisis that caused massive water loss and ...

A Long March 4B Y53 carrier rocket carrying a new satellite for ocean-salinity detection blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in North China's Shanxi province on Nov 14, 2024.

Salt water from the ocean is starting to creep into the Delaware River Basin due to intensifying drought and sea level rise, ...

China launched a satellite Thursday dedicated to tracking ocean salinity from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi province. The satellite lifted off at 6.42 a.m. Beijing time (2242GMT ...