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Croconeer t1_is1p3jj wrote

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

Is there a noticeable interaction of warmer water being able to have a higher solubility limit of salts that may make it stratified lower? Or is that change in solubility not significant enough?

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Chlorophilia t1_is1tjmx wrote

In most of the ocean, the water is not saturated with respect to salt (even at 0C, the solubility of salt - or specifically NaCl - is over 350g/L, whereas the typical salinity of seawater is 35g/L). Perhaps this has some effect in hypersaline water bodies such as lagoons or the Dead Sea, but I don't think this would have any meaningful effect in most of the ocean. There are some other interesting interactions between temperature and salinity in the ocean though, such as double diffusive convection!

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Croconeer t1_is1un1n wrote

Thanks for the reply; so an order of magnitude off from saturation then. That could be interesting for those halocline phenomenons. I have things to read. Also that double diffusive convection phenomenon is hawt.

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