PPT-Sea Surface Salinity Climate Change Initiative

Scientific Colead J Boutin LOCEANN Reul IFREMER Climate Research Group D Stammer and J Khoeler UHAM Project Manager Rafael Catany ARGANS CCI CMUG Integration Meeting Exeter 2018. Observations: Ocean. Janice Bytheway . ATS786 . September 15, 2014. Disclaimer. I’m not an oceanographer. I took an Intro to Oceanography course once in undergrad, but that was a long time ago. . Table of Contents. COMIDA-Hanna Shoal Ecosystem Study. Prepared by Jordann K. Young. Marine Science Department. University of Texas at Austin. GIS in Water Resources. Fall 2012. The Chukchi Sea. Seasonal ice cover . High primary productivity. On the back of each card, write what makes each critter significant to the study of SALINITY. Where do these organisms live on the . Gradient of Salinity?. TOTALLY FRESH . BRACKISH . . OCEANIC . The salty sea. Sources of Sea Salt. Chemical weathering of rock. .. Outgassing from volcanoes. Salinity. Measure of salt in water. Units of salinity is parts per thousand (0/00).. Examples of Ocean Salinity. John Olson. Desert Research Institute. Society for Freshwater Science Annual Meeting. 23 May 2016. River & stream salinity. Varies . over four orders of magnitude, . specific electrical conductivity (EC) from < . Algorithm. Frank . J. . Wentz and . Thomas . Meissner, . Remote Sensing Systems . Gary . S. . Lagerloef. , . Earth and Space Research. . David M. Le . Vine, . NASA Goddard. Presented at . 7. th. Aquarius/SAC-D Science Meeting. Frederick Bingham. UNC Wilmington. Collaborators: Julius . Busecke. ,. Arnold Gordon and Claudia . Giulivi. (LDEO), . Zhijin. Li (JPL). Also thanks to J. . D’Addezio. !. Work funded by NASA. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans doi:10.1002/2014JC009825. Sea Level Rise and the Future of Coastal Cities. Boston University. 14 November 2014. Outline. Context. What do we know, and how do we know?. Implications for the future. Actions for today. We are a coastal city…. we compare measured . salinity across . metric distributions. . In . addition to traditional comparisons . between mean or median . values, the . 1%, 10%, 25%, 50%, 75%, 90% and 99% . quantiles of . the statistical . Susan Mulligan, General Manager. Calleguas Municipal Water District. Calleguas. Service. Area. Naturally occurring salts. Salt Build-Up. Ventura County . Groundwater Salinity. Total Dissolved Solids (TDS). Generally, salinity is defined as the ‘the total amount of solid material in grains contained in one kilogram of sea water and is expressed as part per thousands (%o) . e.g. . 30%o (means 30 grams of salt in 1000 grams of sea water). . Intoduction. Salinity and . Chlorinity. . Temperature and . themal. properties of sea water . Colligative. and other properties of sea water . Residence time of constituents in sea water. Sea ice . Climate. is what you expect, . Weather . is what you get!. Everyone has heard the phrase, but what does it actually mean?. Climate. Change . = The change in average conditions of a particular place over a long period of time. (We usually link ‘climate change’ to rising temperatures but this is . Why do we care about the major ions?. What . is the composition of seawater?. What defines Major Ions? . What are their concentrations?. What are their properties?. Density: . distributions . and . controls (salinity and temperature).