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How does water movement affect salinity?

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The ocean has direct sunlight and heat forward toward it all day. This causes for the sun to evaporate the water in the ocean. So while the water is evaporating the salt in the ocean does not. Thus, less water means more salt is present.

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Temperature and salinity are related to pressure and density through the seawater equation of state. This is an empirically derived formula, as no theoretically-derived closed form solution is known.

A linear approximation for small variations around the mean density (rho_0) can be written (from Vallis, p.16):

rho = rho_0 [1 - beta_T (T - T_0) + beta_S (S - S_0) + beta_p (p - p_0)]

where,

beta_T ~ 2 (+/- 1.5) x 10^{-4} K^{-1}

beta_S ~ 7.6 (+/- 0.2) x 10^{-4} ppt^{-1}

beta_p ~ 4.1 (+/- 0.5) x 10^{-10} Pa^{-1}

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The temperature control how hot or cold the ocean is. The salinity control how much salt is in the ocean.

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Well, the movement off the water moves the salt or the salinity.

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evaporation and rain.

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