Salinity and Temperature Balances at the SPURS Central Mooring During Fall and Winter

A salt budget, as the name suggests, is a process of accounting for all of the salt entering or leaving a control volume (or box) in the ocean.This exercise does not directly tell us what particular physical phenomena are causing changes in salinity within the box, but it does help narrow our focus to particular physical processes that are influencing salinity.Salinity variations occur on a vast range of temporal and spatial scales, from minutes to decades (e.g., Riser et al., 2015, in this issue) and from centimeter to global scales.Varying the size and shape of our box and the temporal averaging that we