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Salinity[edit]

Salinity is measured in parts per thousand, not percent. People should stop changing it to percent. Ncboy2010 (talk) 11:34, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Certain elements nonsensical[edit]

For example, the Baltic is listed as a "type" of Mediterranean sea...

I'm getting also from chart that Med. is less salty than Atlantic... which I don't think is correct.

There are quite possibly other errors in the chart. 108.204.142.171 (talk) 23:23, 20 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn't aware of this but apparently the term "Mediterranean sea" has an oceanographic definition. See Mediterranean sea (oceanography). As for the salinity of the Mediterranean Sea itself, I haven't yet found a definite answer yet. --RacerX¹¹ Talk to me^{Stalk me} 23:34, 20 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This map appears to indicate very high salinity for MS compared to the Ocean, which is confirmed by this source which states "Mediterranean Sea sticks out in the Aquarius maps as a very salty sea." However other sources suggest the salinity in the MS varies considerably from east to west and these maps don't show that, so I wonder how accurate they really are. Regardless, this article doesn't actually say MS is less salty than the Atlantic. It doesn't list the Mediterranean Sea itself at all. I think it should be added if we have a good source that clearly states its salinity. --RacerX¹¹ Talk to me^{Stalk me} 00:02, 21 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

More evaporation takes place due to the temperature and enclosed area.Mzmadmike (talk) 06:36, 2 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Baltic Sea[edit]

The list states the Baltic Sea to have 23 ‰ even if the Baltic Sea article says the surface salinity is 8 ‰. The source given here is a scientific report which is reliable, but if reading it carefully, it states that the bottom salinity of the Baltic end of the transition zone between the Baltic sea and the Kattegat (the ocean) is 23 ‰, while the surface salinity there is 10 ‰. Some other source on the actual Baltic Sea is needed.--BIL (talk) 19:34, 7 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Aral Sea[edit]

Where is the Aral Sea?Mzmadmike (talk) 06:36, 2 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It has dried up and turned into the Aralkum Desert. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 01:14, 3 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Dead Sea[edit]

Why is the Dead Sea not listed? As a passer-by this struck me as odd, and I expected to find some sound reasoning for its absence on the talk tab. 110.142.48.242 (talk) 04:33, 9 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The version of the article you were looking at had a formatting error which caused several table entries to disappear. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:29, 9 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Don Juan pond can't possibly have 47.4% salinity[edit]

The amount of salt that can saturate into water is proportional to temperature. Gaet'ale Pond, at 43.3% salinity, is totally saturated at over 50 degrees; the water is surrounded by pure salt that it has deposited. Don Juan Pond has a temperature far below freezing, therefore maximum salinity must be well below 43.3%. This is one of those scenarios that really brings into question the validity of a secondary sources in citations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.189.128.201 (talk) 09:38, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

According to

Johanna Laybourn-Parry; Jemma L. Wadham (2014). Antarctic Lakes. Oxford University Press. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-19-967049-9.

Don Juan Pond is a Calcium chloride solution, whose salinity reaches as much as 67.1%. According to our article on CaCl, it is extremely soluble, with saturated solutions at around 60g/100ml at 0-10 °C, much more than Natrium chloride which only reaches about 40% at high temperatures. No such user (talk) 11:34, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Confusion of units?[edit]

The reference for Don Juan Pond gives 474 grams per litre, or "338‰ S". For Gaet'ale Pond, the source, a scientific paper, says "total dissolved solids (TDS) of 433 g kg−1" which it says is "a higher salinity" than Don Juan Pond. But the figures of '474' and '433' are both used in this Wikipedia article as g/kg (‰). While fresh water weighs 1 kg/litre, saltwater is denser - and at this extreme density, presumably a lot denser. The Garabogazkol lagoon, listed at 350, is also, when you look at the source, 300-350 g/l , not per kg.

I think we need to have a consistent use of units, if we can find a common unit for all of them, or an authoritative way of conversion. Peace Makes Plenty (talk) 11:03, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]