NASA Voyage To Explore Link Between Sea Saltiness and Climate

DevotedSkeptic sends this excerpt from NASA: "A NASA-sponsored expedition is set to sail to the North Atlantic's saltiest spot to get a detailed, 3-D picture of how salt content fluctuates in the ocean's upper layers and how these variations are related to shifts in rainfall patterns around the planet. The research voyage is part of a multi-year mission, dubbed the Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study (SPURS), which will deploy multiple instruments in different regions of the ocean. ... They will return with new data to aid in understanding one of the most worrisome effects of climate change — the acceleration of Earth's water cycle. As global temperatures go up, evaporation increases, altering the frequency, strength, and distribution of rainfall around the planet, with far-reaching implications for life on Earth."

Isn't this more NOAA's job?

[Anonymous Coward]

With NASA crying that it doesn't have enough money, why is it trying to do something that is probably NOAA's job?

Typical bureaucrats- gotta do anything to build their empires.

Note: I'm not saying this isn't good science to do, just that it's someone else's job.