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Conservative Temperature from Density, Absolute Salinity and Pressure

Usage

gsw_CT_from_rho(rho, SA, p)

Arguments

rho

seawater density [ kg/m^3 ]

SA

Absolute Salinity [ g/kg ]. The valid range for most `gsw` functions is 0 to 42 g/kg.

p

sea pressure [dbar], i.e. absolute pressure [dbar] minus 10.1325 dbar

Value

A list containing two estimates of Conservative Temperature: CT and CT_multiple, each in [ degC ].

Implementation Note

This R function uses a wrapper to a C function contained within the GSW-C system as updated 2022-10-11 at https://github.com/TEOS-10/GSW-C with git commit `657216dd4f5ea079b5f0e021a4163e2d26893371`.

The C function uses data from the library/gsw_data_v3_0.mat file provided in the GSW-Matlab source code, version 3.06-11. Unfortunately, this version of the mat file is no longer displayed on the TEOS-10.org website. Therefore, in the interests of making GSW-R be self-contained, a copy was downloaded from http://www.teos-10.org/software/gsw_matlab_v3_06_11.zip on 2022-05-25, the .mat file was stored in the developer/create_data directory of https://github.com/TEOS-10/GSW-R, and then the dataset used in GSW-R was created based on that .mat file.

Please consult http://www.teos-10.org to learn more about the various TEOS-10 software systems.

Examples

rho <- c(1021.8484, 1022.2647, 1024.4207, 1027.7841, 1029.8287, 1031.9916)
SA <- c(   34.7118,   34.8915,   35.0256,   34.8472,   34.7366,   34.7324)
p <- c(         10,        50,       125,       250,       600,      1000)
r <- gsw_CT_from_rho(rho, SA, p)
stopifnot(all.equal(r$CT, c(28.784377302226968, 28.432402127485858, 22.808745445250068,
                            10.260169334807866, 6.887336649146716, 4.404594162282834)))