English: The 2020 mean oceanic surface salinity, with clearly visible how the by evaporation dominated subtropics are more saline. The tropics and higher latitudes are less saline. Based on GODAS data provided by the NOAA/OAR/ESRL PSL, Boulder, Colorado, USA, from their Web site at https://www.psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.godas.htm