Computes oxygen concentration for seawater that is equilibrium with vapour-saturated air at standard atmospheric pressure (101.325 kPa, i.e. for sea pressure of 0dbar). The formula, not created by the SCOR/IAPSO Working Group 127 nor approved by the IOC, is stated in the TEOS-10 documentation to be from Benson and Krause (1984), as fitted by Garcia and Gordon (1992, 1993). That formulation is framed in UNESCO-era water properties, so longitude and latitude are needed here, to convert to these quantities from Absolute Salinity and Conservative Temperature; see also gsw_O2sol_SP_pt, which is formulated in UNESCO terms.
gsw_O2sol(SA, CT, p, longitude, latitude)
Arguments
SA: Absolute Salinity [ g/kg ]. The valid range for most gsw functions is 0 to 42 g/kg.
CT: Conservative Temperature [ degC ].
p: sea pressure [dbar], i.e. absolute pressure [dbar] minus 10.1325 dbar
longitude: longitude in decimal degrees, positive to the east of Greenwich. (This is called long in the TEOS-10 Matlab code.)
latitude: latitude in decimal degrees, positive to the north of the equator. (This is called lat in the TEOS-10 Matlab code.)
Returns
Oxygen solubility in micro-moles per kg.
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.