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February 28, 2013

NASA's Aquarius Sees Salty Shifts
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 28, 2013
The colorful images chronicle the seasonal stirrings of our salty world: Pulses of freshwater gush from the Amazon River's mouth; an invisible seam divides the salty Arabian Sea from the fresher waters of the Bay of Bengal; a large patch of freshwater appears in the eastern tropical Pacific in the winter. These and other changes in ocean salinity patterns are revealed by the first full year of surface salinity data captured by NASA's Aquarius instrument. "With a bit more than a year of data, we ar ... read more

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