Vol. 21, No. 1, March 2008
Special Issue on Salinity

Salinity and the Global Water Cycle (1.2 MB pdf)
by R.W. Schmitt

Sea Surface Salinity Trends over Fifty Years Within the Subtropical North Atlantic (2.6 MB pdf)
by A.L. Gordon and C.F. Giulivi

Evolution of North Atlantic Water Masses Inferred from Labrador Sea Salinity Series (15.5 MB pdf)
by I. Yashayaev and A. Clarke

Interannual to Interdecadal Salinity Variations Observed Near Hawaii: Local and Remote Forcing by Surface Freshwater Fluxes (10.8 MB pdf)
by R. Lukas and F. Santiago-Mandujano

Salinity in Argo: A Modern View of a Changing Ocean (4.2 MB pdf)
by S.C. Riser, L. Ren, and A. Wong

The Aquarius/SAC-D Mission: Designed to Meet the Salinity Remote-Sensing Challenge (4.1 MB pdf)
by G. Lagerloef, F.R. Colomb, D. Le Vine, F. Wentz, S. Yueh, C. Ruf, J. Lilly, J. Gunn, Y. Chao, A. deCharon, G. Feldman, and C. Swift

What’s Next for Salinity? (940 KB pdf)
by the CLIVAR Salinity Working Group

BREAKING WAVES

Eastern US Continental Shelf Carbon Budget: Integrating Models, Data Assimilation, and Analysis (3.2 MB pdf)
by the USECoS Team

DEPARTMENTS

Quarterdeck: Qualities of a Good Mentor (444 KB pdf)
by E.S. Kappel

From the President: The Salt of the Sea (452 KB pdf)
by R. Spinrad

Ripple Marks—The Story Behind the Story (1.4 MB pdf)
Getting in the Way of a Big Ship Might Kill You: From Heart Disease or Lung Cancer • Alchemy at Work? Seaweed Transformed into Stem Cell Technology • First International Deep-Sea Marine Protected Area Proposed • Bear Predation Drives Salmon to Old Age
by C.L. Dybas

The Oceanography Classroom: An Awakening (Part I) (480 KB pdf)
by R.J. Feller

Book Reviews (1 MB pdf)
The Geomorphology of the Great Barrier Reef: Development, Diversity, and Change • The Unnatural History of the Sea • Fundamentals of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics