d18OwFromSalinity: Calculate d18O of seawater from salinity

Description Usage Arguments Value References See Also Examples

View source: R/d18O-calibration.R

Description

The equation from Duplessy et al. (1991) based on the salinity for water samples collected in the upper 250 m of the Atlantic Ocean during the GEOSECS expedition. As reported in Anand et al. 2003

Usage

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Arguments

Salinity

Salinity in grams per litre or parts per thousand.

Value

d18Ow as permille deviation from the SMOW scale

References

Anand, P., Elderfield, H. and Conte, M. H.: Calibration of Mg/Ca thermometry in planktonic foraminifera from a sediment trap time series, Paleoceanography, 18(2), 1050, doi:10.1029/2002PA000846, 2003.

Duplessy, J.-C., L. Labeyrie, A. Juillet-Leclerc, F. Maitre, J. Dupart, and M. Sarnthein, Surface salinity reconstruction of the north Atlantic Ocean during the last glacial maximum, Oceanol. Acta, 14, 311– 324, 1991.

See Also

d18OcFromd18OwTemp CalcifTemp

Examples

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