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Water mass characteristics
A property value or, more often, range of property values by which a water mass can be identified and tracked through the ocean. The most commonly used are temperature, potential temperature, salinity, potential density or the density referenced to a particular depth or pressure. Less often used by still quite valuable for certain applications are oxygen, nitrate, phosphate, silicate, chlorofluorocarbon, carbon 14 and tritium.
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