Seawater absolute salinity, in GSW formulation

Description

Compute the seawater Absolute Salinity, according to the GSW/TEOS-10 formulation with gsw::gsw_SA_from_SP() in the gsw package. Typically, this is a fraction of a unit higher than practical salinity as defined in the UNESCO formulae.

Usage

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

Arguments

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)