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Dry Regions Becoming Drier: Ocean Salinities Show an Intensified Water Cycle
Description: A new study shows the surface ocean beneath rainfall-dominated regions has freshened, whereas ocean regions dominated by evaporation are saltier. The paper also confirms that surface warming of the world's oceans over the past 50 years has penetrated into the oceans' interior changing deep-ocean salinity patterns. [Source: ScienceDaily]
URL: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100416094050.htm
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Source: ScienceDaily
Publish Date: 4/18/2010
Reading Level: Basic
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