Salinity and Water Cycle over the Oceans: Recent Progress and Future Challenges; Hamburg, Germany, 12–15 October 2015
This workshop brought together almost 100 scientists from around the world to review recent progress on salinity and freshwater research, discussing problems that must be solved to improve our understanding of future changes in the water cycle. It was reported that advances in three-dimensional sampling of temperature and salinity and spaceborne measurements of sea surface salinity have led to a better understanding of the ocean water cycle. Existing observations of salinity changes provide strong evidence for changes in the ocean water cycle over recent decades - changes that will most likely be amplified in a warming world. The next challenge is to strengthen the link between efforts concerning the oceanic and terrestrial components of the global hydrological cycle.
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