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What is the salinity average or level of the Red sea and the Mediterranean?
The salinity of the Red Sea ranges from 3.6 to 3.8%.
How do you find the chemical analysis of water in the Jordan River Dead Sea Mediterranean Sea or the Sea of Galilee?
Partial answer: The salinity of the dead sea is ~31.5% by weight while the salinity of the Mediterranean is ~3.5%
Where in the oceans are highest values of salinity found?
Shallow areas with low or no currents and high evaporation.
What sea has highest salinity in the world a mediterranean sea b Black Sea c dead sea d red sea?
Red Sea
Why does the red sea have high salinity?
There are several factors that the Red Sea has high salinity. The Red Sea has a high rate of evaporation and very little precipitation. It also has a limited connection with the Indian Ocean, which has lower water salinity. The Red Sea has a lack of significant rivers or streams draining into the sea.
Why does dead sea has highest salinity?
There are several factors that the Red Sea has high salinity. The Red Sea has a high rate of evaporation and very little precipitation. It also has a limited connection with the Indian Ocean, which has lower water salinity. The Red Sea has a lack of significant rivers or streams draining into the sea.
Why is salinity of the red sea over 40 percent?
The salinity of the Red Sea is high because it has a high rate of evaporation compared to precipitation. Also, there are no freshwater sources draining into the sea.
What is the Mediterranean's intermediate water?
It is a distinctive water flow from the Mediterranean sea into the Atlantic it is particularly notable on temperature/salinity graphs as it is particularly saline and warm.
What physical conditions create high salinity water in the Red Sea and low salinity water in the Baltic Sea?
The Red Sea receives little rain fall and has high evaporation rates resulting in high-salinity water. The Baltic Sea contains low-salinity water as a result of abundant freshwater runoff from the surrounding land.
Why is the Mediterranean sea so salty?
Like all seas, rivers carry bits of sedimentary rock down them to the sea. Salt as you may well know is in this rock. The mediterreanean is probably saltier than others for a few reasons: * Higher salt content rocks & soil * More rivers going to the sea
In the subtropics the saltiest water is generally at the surface, why?
What causes low salinity in the oceans at high latitudes?In subtropical latitudes, high surface evaporation creates high salinity near the sea surface. In subpolar latitudes, high precipitation creates low salinity near the sea surface. As these waters flow into the ocean interior, they create layers of high and low salinity.
Why does the Dead Sea have such high salinity levels?
The Dead Sea has high salinity levels because it has no outlet for water to flow out. Water from the Jordan River flows in and evaporates, leaving behind salt and minerals, which increases the salinity over time.
