Since August 2011, NASA's satellite instruments have revealed how sea surface salinity changes over time with unprecedented detail. This new perspective of our ocean provided the scientific motivation for the Salinity Processes in the upper-Ocean Regional Study (SPURS), a coordinated field campaign to understand causes behind the patterns and variations of salinity at the ocean's surface. The images in this slideshow come from the SPURS field campaign.

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