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What are some ways to track water movement?

What are some ways to track water movement?

Chris_L wrote:

What are some ways to track water movement?

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Two of the main ways to track water movement are floats that are weighed down to a neutrally buoyant depth and surface drifters that follow the surface current and send signals to satellites or nearby radar signals.

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At what latitude is the Coriolis effect the weakest? Strongest? Will it make me throw up?

Chris_L wrote:At what latitude is the Coriolis effect the weakest? Strongest? Will it make me throw up?

Coriolis effect increases with latitude, so equator = weakest and poles = strongest; I highly doubt it

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How do you calculate the density when given temperature and salinity in ppt?

liberalartslover wrote:

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Use a T-S diagram?

I honestly don't know the answer and was hoping you knew a formula.
That's valid though, go ahead

The form of the equation of state is:
o AS + BS^3/2 CS^2

Where A, B, and C are functions of temperature (ºC) and S is salinity. The coefficients
for the combined data are:
A = 8.24493 x 10-1 – 4.0899 x 10-3 t + 7.6438 x 10-5 t2
– 8.2467 x 10-7 t3 + 5.3875 x 10-9 t4
B = -5.72466 x 10-3 + 1.0227 x 10-4 t – 1.6546 x 10-6 t2
C = 4.8314 x 10-4

Here's probably what you're looking for but I doubt you'll ever need to use this formula. Most density calculations on tests I've taken comes in the form of a T-S diagram.

Source: http://ocean.stanford.edu/courses/bomc/ ... ure_03.pdf (Page 10)

As for my question...
What are the differences between El Niño and La Niña. Make sure to also compare with "normal" conditions.