Salty Sea air and cars

Salty Sea air and cars

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Truffs

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266 posts

145 months

Sunday 26th February 2017
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All you scientists out there could you help me answer this as I cannot find the answers.

How far inland do you have to be before the proximity to the coast practically does not matter?

And is it a linear reduction or exponential or some other such curve?

Best Wishes,

Truffs


Beati Dogu

9,194 posts

146 months

Sunday 26th February 2017
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Probably not that far. Maybe half a mile or so, depending on the prevailing wind direction; It's sea spray in the air after all.

I know before the railways made it possible to routinely move seafood products inland, some people used to suffer from goitres (swelling of the thyroid gland in the neck, usually caused by iodine deficiency) e.g. "Derbyshire neck". Not something usually suffered by people living along the coast due to the iodine salts in the sea air & the availability of seafood.

motco

16,230 posts

253 months

Sunday 26th February 2017
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Cannot recall the firm that said it, but I was making outdoor security equipment and polyester powder coating some components or using stainless steel, dependent on customers' requirements. The material suppliers used five miles inland as their benchmark for the end of a marine environment. Obviously some parts of the coast are more severe than others so they had to state the maximum. HTH

Toaster

2,940 posts

200 months

Sunday 26th February 2017
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Have you seen the amount of salt chucked on the roads every winter, when it rains you will be traveling in a mist of salty moist water thrown up by your car and other vehicles !

Probably not a helpful answer but true wink

Edited to say The salinity of rainfall as a function of drop size. The abstract from the paper looks interesting

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/qj.4970...



Edited by Toaster on Sunday 26th February 16:38

motco

16,230 posts

253 months

Wednesday 1st March 2017
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Monty Python said:
Hmmm... Up to ten miles!

Toaster

2,940 posts

200 months

Wednesday 1st March 2017
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Truffs

Original Poster:

266 posts

145 months

Wednesday 1st March 2017
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Wow so within 0.4 of a mile it's pretty bad and some affect to 10 miles!

Truffs

Original Poster:

266 posts

145 months

Wednesday 1st March 2017
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I have read the sources cited and I must say a BIG THANK YOU to those of you who answered.

MitchT

16,233 posts

216 months

Thursday 2nd March 2017
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Interesting thread. I've pondered for some time whether my dream of living near St Ives in Cornwall would be compatible with my dream of owning an 1980s Italian supercar!

Beati Dogu

9,194 posts

146 months

Thursday 2nd March 2017
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Our old collie dog used to start getting excited in the car when we were several miles from the sea. He could obviously smell the sea air long before the coast was even in sight.