Important state variables measured for parcels of water in the ocean are therefore temperature, which is related to the heat content, salinity, which is related to the amount of dissolved matter ...

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, ...

Every day for the past 20 years, about 2,000 hectares of irrigated land in arid and semi-arid regions have been damaged by salinization. Soil salinity, made worse by the escalating impacts of climate ...

Estuaries show a great diversity of size, shape, depth, and forcing characteristics, but a general characteristic of estuaries is the presence of a horizontal salinity gradient (Fig. 2.1). Normally ...

MicroRNAs can make plants more capable of withstanding drought, salinity, pathogens and more. However, in a study published in Nature Plants, Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists show just how ...

Any ice less than 2m thick with high salinity levels (salt leaches out of ice over time) is almost definitely first year ice. Importance: Finding out the age of ice first hand will enable ...

Australia's unemployment rate remained at 4.2 per cent in August, as employment grew by 47,500 people.

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The saline conditions tolerated by various mangrove species range from brackish water, through pure seawater (30 to 40 ppt), to water concentrated by evaporation to over twice the salinity of ...

Here is the famous Steppe, the dry grass-land, the never-ending plain stretching across Eurasia from China to Hungary. Rainfall is too limited for trees to grow. The climate is harsh, with hot ...

Their bodies are full of salts, and due to osmosis which demands that water salinity be balanced, freshwater fills their ...