Is the water level on the West coast of New Zealand higher than the East Coast?
829824
If this all was true, the waters off the EAST coast would be higher, since Earth spins toward the east. \nHowever; even the ocean has areas of higher/lower elevation, according to Topex Dynamic Ocean Topography.\nhttp://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/MOVIES/Topex_Dynamic_Ocean_Topography.mpg\nBut there, around NZ, the ocean does not show higher elevation; it's at a normal  level.
746615
"In average, the water of the the whole world sea has a salinity of 35 (3,5%). This means that for each liter of water of the sea it has 35 grams of you leave dissolved (most is sodium chloride, NaCl). \n\nThe water of the sea does not have salinity around uniform of the globe. The water less saline of the planet is of the Gulf of the Finlândia, in the Baltic Sea. The sea most saline is the Red Sea, in the Middle East, where the heat increases the tax of evaporation in the surface, and has little fluvial discharge."\n\nThen there is 3,5 % of salt in the ocean's water.
539352
Salinity and the latitude is related because of the thermohaline circulation of the ocean waters. This means that the waters circulated around ocean and are driven by density (not temperature). The thermohaline circulation means that the are denser waters at high latitude due to high evaporation rates found in the tropics. Hope that helps
594595
What are you asking. Sea level is always the same.\n\nYou mean elevation above sea level? I think the average is zero, or so I've heard.
180546
Many people think that London, New York, Amsterdam will perish if the sea level rises due the melting of the poles. But a Norwegian scientist confound this theory by carrying out a simple experiment with a glass of water and ice cubes. I might be wrong, but if I remember rightly, the melted ice cubes did not raise the level of water in the glass. If somebody can, please correct me!
836580
Salt water has a lower freezing point than fresh water.
457644
It does indeed have a higher specific gravity than fresh water.\n\nPure water has a specific gravity of 1000 kilograms per cubic meter\n\nSea water (in general) has a higher specific gravity, on average it is around 1026 kilograms per cubic meter
196806
EASTERN\n\nbecause INDIAN OCEAN + PACIFIC is much bigger than just the ATLANTIC OCEAN
199850
When ocean levels rise the water must go somewhere.  So, the water covers up land.  Thus, if ice caps in the artic melt many of our coastal areas will eventually be covered in water... including New York, Boston, etc.
1084244
It is because of the sea currents of the Pacific.\nThey are cold and generate dryness conditions.\nThe same effect happens in the South Hemisphere.\nThis effect, disappears the more you go east after the mountains.\nIt is very dry on the coast until the 42-45° parallel, and then, going norther in the case of North America or souther in the case of South America, becomes a lot more humid.\nThat's the difference between California and the British Columbia for example.\nAnd between north Chile and south Chile.
264363
Good thinking, unlike some of the answers here. Anything put in or on the water displaces water and makes the water level rise. The ocean is so huge that you could not measure it unless the rock was so large you could not move it.
193750
This is due to the seawater having a greater heat capacity than the land, thus they heat and cool off at different rates, causing pressure differentials in the air above them. See the source for details.
293680
Not as good as anywhere on the west coast.
614400
Ocean currents are different in the Atlantic than they are in the Pacific.  Atlantic Ocean currents go clockwise, so the water hitting the east coast of the US is coming from the tropics.  Pacific Ocean currents are clockwise as well, but that means that water hitting the west coast of the US is coming from the Arctic.
1136508
Milford Sound is in Fiordland, NZ   There is a great deal of water there.  The only rock that water forms is called "ice'  ( as in 'I'll have my drink on the rocks")
1126812
1) Evaporation.  The world's largest ocean is on one side of the peninsula, Puget Sound is on the other.  More water evaporates from the ocean that from the sound.\n\n2)  Elevation.  The water from the ocean side of the peninsula does not make it to the sound side of the peninsula because of elevation.  As elevation rises, it forces clouds to go up where the air can hold less moisture.  The clouds then lose their moisture as precipitation while getting over the hump.  The moisture never makes it eastward.
976148
Auckland is on a peninsula about 8km. wide, with a good natural harbour on each side; Waitemata harbour on the east and Manakau on the west, so from this point of view it's in a good location.  Resources?  Closeness to the sea.  Some govt. offices are there, but most are located in Wellington, the capital.  Auckland is NZs biggest city.  Nearly half the country's population live in the Auckland area.  It's in the north of the country.  Wellington is more centrally located, which is why the capital was moved there from the far north in the 19th century.  Auckland is located close to some dormant volcanoes, so maybe it wasn't such a good idea to choose that location.