Nature Climate Change, Published online: 28 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02036-9

Observational data suggest a dramatic increase in the salinity contrast between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans over the course of the past half-century. Ocean dynamical processes driven by winds and warming, in addition to surface freshwater fluxes, make important contributions to basin-scale changes in ocean salinity.
Nature Climate Change