Sentences with phrase «mapped ocean salinity»

Both satellites mapped ocean salinity by picking up faint microwave signals emitted by the sea surface, which change along with salinity.

Not exact matches

Researchers marshaled ocean temperature and salinity data to broadly map the deep water's path (see map, below left).

One option calls for a spacecraft that would map the surface in detail and measure the depth and salinity of the buried ocean.

I haven't read the papers and don't know what is happening with salinity in the rest of the Atlantic, but looking at your map it occurred to me that if there was increased freshwater in the Northern Ocean due to ice melting and increase salinity in the tropical Atlantic due to increased evaporation, couldn't a mixing effect at the southern edge of the Northern ocean as tropical water is circulated north show similar resOcean due to ice melting and increase salinity in the tropical Atlantic due to increased evaporation, couldn't a mixing effect at the southern edge of the Northern ocean as tropical water is circulated north show similar resocean as tropical water is circulated north show similar results?

Maps of ocean salinity at different ocean depths - top: surface; middle: 1 km deep; bottom: 4 km deep.

As can be seen from the maps in Figure 3, the salinity of the oceans varies across the world, e.g., the Atlantic Oceans are slightly saltier than the Pacific Ooceans varies across the world, e.g., the Atlantic Oceans are slightly saltier than the Pacific OOceans are slightly saltier than the Pacific OceansOceans.

to develop new scientific algorithms, synergetic data methodologies and computing techniques that tentatively best map salinity at the surface of the oceans.

The objective of the SMOS mission is to provide Soil Moisture (SM) and Ocean Salinity (OS) maps.

Aquarius will map the open ocean once every seven days for at least three years, allowing scientists to make the first global maps of salinity in the surface layer.