sw.S.T.rho {oce}R Documentation

Seawater salinity from temperature and density

Description

Compute in-situ salinity, given temperature, density, and pressure.

Usage

  S <- sw.S.T.rho(t, sig, p);

Arguments

t in-situ temperature [degC]
sig in-situ density or sigma value [kg/m^3]
p in-situ pressure [dbar]

Details

Finds the salinity that yields the given density, with the given temperature and pressure. The method is a bisection search with a salinity tolerance of 0.001. The isopycnal lines on temperature-salinity diagrams (plot.TS) are computed with this function.

Value

In-situ salinity [PSU].

Author(s)

Dan Kelley Dan.Kelley@Dal.Ca

References

Fofonoff, P. and R. C. Millard Jr, 1983. Algorithms for computation of fundamental properties of seawater. Unesco Technical Papers in Marine Science, 44, 53 pp

Gill, A.E., 1982. Atmosphere-ocean Dynamics, Academic Press, New York, 662 pp.

See Also

sw.T.S.rho

Examples

 S <- sw.S.T.rho(10, 22, 0) # 28.651

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