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Salinity (/ s ə ˈ l ɪ n ɪ t i /) is the saltiness or amount of salt dissolved in a body of water, called saline water (see also soil salinity). It is usually measured in g/L or g/kg (grams of salt per liter/kilogram of water; the latter is dimensionless and equal to ‰ ).
Seawater has a salinity of roughly 35,000 ppm, equivalent to 35 grams of salt per one liter (or kilogram) of water. The saturation level is only nominally dependent on the temperature of the water. [1] At 20 °C (68 °F) one liter of water can dissolve about 357 grams of salt, a concentration of 26.3 percent by weight (% w/w). At 100 °C (212 ...
The density ratio of a column of seawater is a measure of the relative contributions of temperature and salinity in determining the density gradient. [1] At a density ratio of 1, temperature and salinity are said to be compensated : their density signatures cancel, leaving a density gradient of zero.
Seawater, or sea water, is water from a sea or ocean.On average, seawater in the world's oceans has a salinity of about 3.5% (35 g/L, 35 ppt, 600 mM). This means that every kilogram (roughly one liter by volume) of seawater has approximately 35 grams (1.2 oz) of dissolved salts (predominantly sodium (Na +
Water density calculator Archived July 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Water density for a given salinity and temperature. Liquid density calculator Select a liquid from the list and calculate density as a function of temperature. Gas density calculator Calculate density of a gas for as a function of temperature and pressure.
Sigma-t is a quantity used in oceanography to measure the density of seawater at a given temperature. [1] σ T is defined as ρ(S,T)-1000 kg m −3, where ρ(S,T) is the density of a sample of seawater at temperature T and salinity S, measured in kg m −3, at standard atmospheric pressure.
T-S diagram of a station in the North Pacific. In oceanography, temperature-salinity diagrams, sometimes called T-S diagrams, are used to identify water masses.In a T-S diagram, rather than plotting each water property as a separate "profile," with pressure or depth as the vertical coordinate, potential temperature (on the vertical axis) is plotted versus salinity (on the horizontal axis).
This is a list of bodies of water by salinity that is limited to natural bodies of water that have a stable salinity above 0.05%, at or below which water is considered fresh. Water salinity often varies by location and season, particularly with hypersaline lakes in arid areas, so the salinity figures in the table below should be interpreted as ...