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brunswick t1_isairue wrote

Reply to comment by Decapentaplegia in Does the salinity of ocean water increase as depth increases? by rhinotomus

Here's a paper from just this year that uses spice. The GSW package included with TEOS-10 includes functions for calculating spiciness. It's definitely a term that gets used. Here's the paper that gives the mathematical definition of spiciness that's used in TEOS-10. It is different from density in certain ways.

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brunswick t1_isavgaf wrote

Yeah, it's definitely more of a physical oceanography thing, and even then it's sort of niche because there are only certain situations where it's more useful than just using density

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