Sustainable seawater desalination: Current status, environmental implications and future expectations

M Ayaz, MA Namazi, MA ud Din, MIM Ershath… - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Desalination is the process of making the saltwater of the Earth's oceans drinkable and
could be a solution to droughts, especially in warmer and drier regions. However, the …

On the Future of Argo: A Global, Full-Depth, Multi-Disciplinary Array

D Roemmich, MH Alford, H Claustre… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The Argo Program has been implemented and sustained for almost two decades, as a
global array of about 4000 profiling floats. Argo provides continuous observations of ocean …

Framing, Context, and Methods (Chapter 1)

D Chen, M Rojas, BH Samset, K Cobb… - 2021 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
Working Group I (WGI) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assesses
the current evidence on the physical science of climate change, evaluating knowledge …

Improved estimates of changes in upper ocean salinity and the hydrological cycle

L Cheng, KE Trenberth, N Gruber… - Journal of …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Ocean salinity records the hydrological cycle and its changes, but data scarcity and the large
changes in sampling make the reconstructions of long-term salinity changes challenging …

Sea surface salinity estimates from spaceborne L-band radiometers: An overview of the first decade of observation (2010–2019)

N Reul, SA Grodsky, M Arias, J Boutin, R Catany… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Operated since the end of 2009, the European Space Agency (ESA) Soil Moisture and
Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite mission is the first orbiting radiometer that collects regular …

[HTML][HTML] Sensing the ocean biological carbon pump from space: A review of capabilities, concepts, research gaps and future developments

RJW Brewin, S Sathyendranath, T Platt, H Bouman… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The element carbon plays a central role in climate and life on Earth. It is capable of moving
among the geosphere, cryosphere, atmosphere, biosphere and hydrosphere. This flow of …

[HTML][HTML] Progress in understanding of Indian Ocean circulation, variability, air–sea exchange, and impacts on biogeochemistry

HE Phillips, A Tandon, R Furue, R Hood… - Ocean …, 2021 - os.copernicus.org
Over the past decade, our understanding of the Indian Ocean has advanced through
concerted efforts toward measuring the ocean circulation and air–sea exchanges, detecting …

Satellite‐based sea surface salinity designed for ocean and climate studies

J Boutin, N Reul, J Köhler, A Martin… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) is an increasingly used Essential Ocean and Climate
Variable. The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS), Aquarius, and Soil Moisture Active …

[HTML][HTML] Closing the water cycle from observations across scales: Where do we stand?

W Dorigo, S Dietrich, F Aires, L Brocca… - Bulletin of the …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Life on Earth vitally depends on the availability of water. Human pressure on freshwater
resources is increasing, as is human exposure to weather-related extremes (droughts …

Intensification of the global water cycle and evidence from ocean salinity: A synthesis review

L Yu, SA Josey, FM Bingham… - Annals of the New York …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The ocean plays a dominant role in the global water cycle. It is the center of action for global
evaporation and precipitation and supplies the moisture that falls as continental …