Salinity and the global water cycle

Author Posting. © Oceanography Society, 2008. This article is posted here by permission of Oceanography Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Oceanography 21, 1 (2008): 12-19.The support of the National Science Foundation under grant OCE-0647949 to RWS is also acknowledged, as is the Oceans and Climate Change Institute of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution