Spice (oceanography)

Spice (oceanography)

In oceanography the term spice refers to spatial variations in the temperature and salinity of seawater whose effects on density cancel each other. Such "density compensated" thermohaline variability is ubiquitous in the upper ocean. [ [http://www.scienceonline.org/cgi/content/full/283/5401/498 Spice and the Demon] ]


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