Spice (oceanography)
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spice-oceanography-302-11206974
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Spice (oceanography)
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Spice, spiciness, or spicity, symbol τ, is a term in oceanography referring to variations in the temperature and salinity of seawater over space or time, whose combined effects leave the water's density unchanged. For a given spice, any change in temperature is offset by a change in salinity to maintain unchanged density. An increase in temperature decreases density, but an increase in salinity increases density. Such density-compensated thermohaline variability is ubiquitous in the upper ocean.
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Oceanographic term for variations in salinity and potential temperature
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_(oceanography)
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2023-11-29T13:24:45Z
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