OCG533, Fall 2001
Homework assignment 3, due 12 September 2001
Articles
Here are ten sentences from GSO graduate students. Comment on the right or wrong use of articles in each. Rewrite as necessary.
1. I need help with grammar, precision, and overall awkwardness of my written voice.
2. Salinity plays a major role in the composition of ocean waters.
3. The Gilbert Stuart Brook is the source of freshwater for this estuary.
4. The high-temperature and saline upper water had an HSW core centered at about 200 dbar, highest salinity of more than 34.90, and temperature of about 20 °C.
5. The lowest salinity value at all stations appeared at around 26.75 sigma-theta, so the seawater properties at that value should show the intrusion route of the LSW.
6. (Title) Low salinity water core of Kuroshio in the East China sea and intrusion of western boundary current east of the Ryukyu Islands.
7. On 19 August 1997, extensive flooding by typhoon Winnie happened along the western coast of Korea, which is a remote area from typhoon center and has no significant local wind forcing.
8. The variability of sea level using monthly averaged series of sea levels has been extensively studied for the coasts of the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.
9. Monthly mean sea levels are suitable and accessible data in investigation of climatic ocean variations.
10. In Shanghai, while the population density of the densest district, Nanshi, is 58223 (persons/sq. km), that of the sparsest one, also located in center part, is only 15228 (persons/sq. km).