low-salinity

"The longer the spillway is operated, however, and the larger the total volume of water discharged, the more likely it is for very low-salinity water to adversely affect productive oyster areas."

Susan Buchanan: Louisiana Takes Precautions for Mississippi River Flooding Susan Buchanan 2011

"The longer the spillway is operated, however, and the larger the total volume of water discharged, the more likely it is for very low-salinity water to adversely affect productive oyster areas."

Susan Buchanan: Louisiana Takes Precautions for Mississippi River Flooding Susan Buchanan 2011

Northbound streams of warm saline water, the Norwegian Atlantic Current and the West Greenland Current, counter the flow of low-salinity water toward the Atlantic.

Marine Arctic 2009

Export of these low-salinity waters southward couples the Arctic to the world thermohaline circulation (THC) through intermediate and deep-water formation.

Ocean processes of climatic importance in the Arctic 2009

This area encompasses 3.5 million km2 of cold, low-salinity surface water and seasonal sea ice that are linked oceanographically to the Arctic Ocean and areas of the North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans that interact with them.

Marine Arctic 2009

This low-temperature, low-salinity water (the “Great Salinity Anomaly”) drifted around the North Atlantic and had noticeable, and in some cases serious, effects on marine ecosystems [44].

Fisheries and aquaculture in the Central North Atlantic (Iceland and Greenland) 2009

These flows carry low-salinity water as well as sea ice.

Ocean processes of climatic importance in the Arctic 2009

At high latitudes the return flows include export by ice and transport in low-salinity boundary currents, intermediate water (which forms and sinks along the subpolar fronts), and deep water (which sinks on shelves and in gyres).

Ocean processes of climatic importance in the Arctic 2009

In the Nordic Seas, this has been observed in the form of low-salinity plumes sinking at fronts between Arctic and Atlantic waters [31].

Ocean processes of climatic importance in the Arctic 2009

The occurrence and intensity of overturning is sensitive to the density of water at the surface in these convective gyres, which is in turn sensitive to the outflow of low-salinity water from the Arctic.

Influence of the Arctic on global climate 2009