Halocline

Graphical representation of temperature and salinity data of a point in the Arctic Ocean (85.1840 ° North, 117.2820 ° East, dated January 1st, 2010) which clearly shows the haloclinic structure of this sea.

A halocline (from old-Greek hals = salt and klínein = to incline; English halocline ) is the transition zone between layers of water with different salinity. Fresh and salt water layers do not mix there, the less salty layers “float” onto the more salty ones. This creates the halocline or salinity jump layer.

The halocline is one of the possible phenomena that are assigned to the pycnocline .

Trivia

The phenomenon of halocline is also in the science fiction miniseries by Dean Devlin Bermuda Triangle - gateway to another time used.

Web links

Wiktionary: Halocline - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

^ US National Oceanographic Data Center: Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program. June 2006. US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Oceanographic Data Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, 20910. Date of Access, http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/GTSPP/

[gtsppdata-1] US National Oceanographic Data Center: Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program. June 2006. US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Oceanographic Data Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, 20910. Date of Access, http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/GTSPP/