swAlphaOverBeta {oce}R Documentation

Ratio of seawater thermal expansion coefficient to haline contraction coefficient

Description

Compute alpha/beta using McDougall's (1987) algorithm.

Usage

swAlphaOverBeta(
  salinity,
  temperature = NULL,
  pressure = NULL,
  longitude = NULL,
  latitude = NULL,
  eos = getOption("oceEOS", default = "gsw")
)

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).

temperature

in-situ temperature (degC)

pressure

pressure (dbar)

longitude

longitude of observation (only used if eos="gsw"; see ‘Details’).

latitude

latitude of observation (only used if eos="gsw"; see ‘Details’).

eos

equation of state, either "unesco" or "gsw".

Value

Value in psu/degC.

Author(s)

Dan Kelley

References

The eos="unesco" formulae are based on the UNESCO equation of state, but are formulated empirically by Trevor J. McDougall, 1987, Neutral Surfaces, Journal of Physical Oceanography, volume 17, pages 1950-1964. The eos="gsw" formulae come from GSW; see references in the swRho() documentation.

See Also

Other functions that calculate seawater properties: T68fromT90(), T90fromT48(), T90fromT68(), swAbsoluteSalinity(), 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

swAlphaOverBeta(40, 10, 4000, eos="unesco") # 0.3476
[Package oce version 1.2-0 Index]