"salinity" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is used to refer to the salt content of a substance, usually water. An example sentence would be, "The salinity of the ocean is higher than ever before."
Robert Dickson, from the fisheries laboratory in Lowestoft on the east coast of Britain, followed a "great salinity anomaly" (a pool of water less saline than the surrounding sea) as it proceeded around the north Atlantic in the late 1960s to early 1980s.
The award-winning complex is an astonishing 75,000m² in total, including numerous indoor and outdoor pools of varying ambience, depth, size, temperature and salinity; a vast sauna area; several restaurants and bars; and space to lounge inside and out.
After all, for about eight decades after the canal's opening in 1869, few creatures made it through, thanks to the extra salinity coming from salt in the ground.
Some scientists say that the Suez Canal should contain such a salinity barrier.
This zone of ideal salinity for young smelt to feed is known as the X2; the Interior Department had decided that in wet years like this one, it should be no farther than 46 miles east of the Golden Gate Bridge.
The lakes, though, no longer draw enough extra salinity from the ground to hinder the passage of sea creatures.This leads some scientists to propose recreating a highly saline area.
If all goes well, over the next few years plants that tolerate drought, salinity and extreme heat will revolutionise the cultivation of mankind's most important source of calories.
The richest rice-growing areas in the world are the deltas of Asia's great rivers, such as the Mekong, Brahmaputra and Irawaddy; they are vulnerable to rising sea levels and increased salinity, which kills rice.
Both 2-9-3 and its modern cousin appear to have adapted for survival in their respective salty homes.But 2-9-3 is able to tolerate salinity only to a certain extent.
These moored observatories, though, can reach out beyond the range of their fixed instruments using robots.Most of these robots are torpedo-shaped ocean gliders (one of which is pictured above) that "fly" long distances through the sea, sampling sunlight penetration, chlorophyll and oxygen concentrations, and the density, pressure, temperature and salinity of the water.
Both will measure processes such as upwelling (important for the recycling of nutrients that have fallen to the seabed), oxygen depletion (which is often caused by pollution), and the dramatic changes in water temperature, salinity and currents that happen where the continental shelf dives into the abyss.The remaining four observatories are stationed in deeper water.
