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Hi all, </div>
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I had a question about the salt/salinity budget closure in ECCO V4r4. The ECCO V4r4 tutorial says that "SFLUX" is
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salt flux (match salt-content variations) (g/m^2/s)</a></span>. However, the corresponding diagnostics document says that SFLUX is "<span style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215);"><a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ECCO-GROUP/ECCO-ACCESS/refs/heads/main/varlist/v4r4/v4r4_nctiles_monthly_varlist.txt" title="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ECCO-GROUP/ECCO-ACCESS/refs/heads/main/varlist/v4r4/v4r4_nctiles_monthly_varlist.txt" data-outlook-id="793c5e25-c3ed-4854-91cb-ea2a3dd9a647" data-ogsc="rgb(0, 120, 215)" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215);">Rate
of change of total ocean salinity per m^2 accounting for mass fluxes (g/(m^2 s)</a></span>)</div>
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These are quite different. Which is accurate? Is SFLUX still appropriate for closing the salt budget, or should it have the freshwater flux component removed? </div>
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Sincerely, </div>
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Anthony</div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">覧覧覧覧覧覧</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;"><b>Anthony Meza</b> (he/him)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">PhD Candidate</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Physical Oceanography</span></p>
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Program</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> </span></p>
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