While you may not have heard the term water turbidity before, you've probably seen it. Think about a muddy puddle or runoff on a road after a storm. The water looks murky. That's high turbidity.

Deployment of ocean-floor mooring from research vessel's back deck. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 04 Oct. 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by M.

For more than a month this spring, Yellowknife was under a boil water advisory that was blamed on turbidity. Bottled water sales skyrocketed, fountain pop dispensers were off limits at fast food ...

Secchi Disc to Measure Turbidity (IMAGE) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Caption One of the standardized measurements taken at all CARICOMP Caribbean monitoring sites is water turbidity, an ...

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They are fast-moving currents that sweep down submarine canyons, carrying sand and mud into the deep sea. However, there is more to them than just sediment-laden seawater flowing over the sea floor, ...

One of the mysteries of the ocean is the long, deep gorges that wind across the continental shelves like submerged river valleys. Oceanographers thought at first that they were really valleys cut by ...