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Salinity is a measure of thew salt content in a solution and is expressed in parts per thousand (ppt)
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What does the term salinity mean?
Salinity is the amount of salt in water, expressed as parts per 1,000.
What is ocean salinity usually expressed in?
parts per thousand
Ocean salinity is usually expressed in?
parts per thousand
Salinity of sea water is usually measured in parts per?
It is expressed as 'permille' or parts per thousand
Why is salinity expressed in parts per thousand instead of percent?
Because the proportion of dissolved substances in seawater is such a small number, oceanographers typically express salinity in parts per thousand.
What is ocean water salinity?
Salinity is defined as the total amount of solid material in grams contained in 1km of sea water and is expressed as part per thousand. Salinity affects physical property of ocean such as temperature, pressure, density, waves and currents.
What is a measure of how salty water is?
Salinity is a measure of the saltiness of water.
Why do oceanographers take measurements of the of the seawater?
Conductivity can be used to calculate the salinity of the water.
Where is salinity a problem?
You find salinity where there are farms
Why is the surface of the sea not level?
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What is salinity and how does salinity change with depth?
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What part of speech is salinity?
Salinity is a noun.
