swAbsoluteSalinity: Seawater absolute salinity, in GSW formulation

In oce: Analysis of Oceanographic Data

Description

Compute seawater absolute salinity, according to the GSW/TEOS-10 formulation.

Usage

swAbsoluteSalinity(salinity, pressure = NULL, longitude = NULL,
  latitude = NULL)

Arguments

salinity	either practical salinity (in which case temperature and pressure must be provided) or an oce object (in which case salinity, etc. are inferred from the object).
pressure	pressure in dbar.
longitude	longitude of observation.
latitude	latitude of observation.

Details

The absolute salinity is calculated using the GSW function gsw_SA_from_SP. Typically, this is a fraction of a unit higher than practical salinity as defined in the UNESCO formulae.

Value

Absolute Salinity in g/kg.

Author(s)

Dan Kelley

References

McDougall, T.J. and P.M. Barker, 2011: Getting started with TEOS-10 and the Gibbs Seawater (GSW) Oceanographic Toolbox, 28pp., SCOR/IAPSO WG127, ISBN 978-0-646-55621-5.

See Also

The related TEOS-10 quantity “conservative temperature” may be computed with swConservativeTemperature. For a ctd object, absolute salinity may also be recovered by indexing as e.g. ctd[["absoluteSalinity"]] or ctd[["SA"]].

Other functions that calculate seawater properties: T68fromT90, T90fromT48, T90fromT68, swAlphaOverBeta, swAlpha, swBeta, swCSTp, swConservativeTemperature, swDepth, swDynamicHeight, swLapseRate, swN2, swPressure, swRho, swRrho, swSCTp, swSTrho, swSigma0, swSigma1, swSigma2, swSigma3, swSigma4, swSigmaTheta, swSigmaT, swSigma, swSoundAbsorption, swSoundSpeed, swSpecificHeat, swSpice, swTFreeze, swTSrho, swThermalConductivity, swTheta, swViscosity, swZ

Examples

## Not run: 
sa <- swAbsoluteSalinity(35.5, 300, 260, 16)
stopifnot(abs(35.671358392019094 - sa) < 00.000000000000010)

## End(Not run)

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