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In TEOS-10/GSW-R: Gibbs Sea Water Functions

In GSW-R 1.0-5, the data/saar.rda file was built up from a NetCDF file provided by GSW-Fortran. However, I learned from Eric Firing that the GSW-C code was built instead on the matlab file provided in the source for GSW 3.06-11, and so that is what is used in this version of GSW-R.

Unfortunately, the TEOS-10 website no longer links to 3.06-11, but it is available at http://www.teos-10.org/software/gsw_matlab_v3_06_11.zip as of 2021-jul-6. To get around worries that this link might fail in the future, I have downloaded this source zipfile, expanded it, and copied the relevant matlab file to this directory, using

# OLD cp /Users/kelley/src/gsw_matlab_v3_06_11/library/gsw_data_v3_0.mat .
cp /Users/kelley/git/GSW-Matlab/Toolbox/library/gsw_data_v3_0.mat .

and this is what I'll use to build up the .rda file.

TEOS-10/GSW-R documentation built on April 14, 2025, 12:46 p.m.