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

Seawater salinity from temperature and density

Description

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

Usage

sw.S.T.rho(t, rho, p)

Arguments

t in-situ temperature [degC]
rho 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

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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