Meanings
- not comparablePertaining to changes in salinity of seawater.
Thermosteric and halosteric changes may be partly due to changes in the inflowing Atlantic water and also due to changes in surface heat fluxes within the Mediterranean basin.
2012, Piero Lionello, The Climate of the Mediterranean Region, →ISBN, page 2662 more examples
Since there is no major source of new salt in the ocean, halosteric contributions will result from redistribution of salt by currents, a change in evaporation over precipitation and runoff or from a change in salt concentration by a net change in the water stored in ice sheets.
1990, H. Frank Eden, Towards an integrated system for measuring long term changes in global sea level, page 4Antonov et al. (2002) attributed about 10% of the global average steric sea level rise during recent decades to halosteric expansion (i.e., the volume increase caused by freshening of the water column).
2007, Susan Solomon, Climate Change 2007 - The Physical Science Basis, →ISBN
Origin
From halo- + Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós, “solid”) + -ic.
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