gsw_O2sol function

Oxygen Solubility in Seawater (GSW variables)

Oxygen Solubility in Seawater (GSW variables)

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.

Examples

SA <- c(34.7118, 34.8915, 35.0256, 34.8472, 34.7366, 34.7324) CT <- c(28.8099, 28.4392, 22.7862, 10.2262, 6.8272, 4.3236) p <- c( 10, 50, 125, 250, 600, 1000) latitude <- c(4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4) longitude <- c(188, 188, 188, 188, 188, 188) O2sol <- gsw_O2sol(SA,CT,p,longitude,latitude) stopifnot(all.equal(O2sol/100, c(1.949651126384804, 1.958728907684003, 2.148922307892045, 2.738656506758550, 2.955109771828408, 3.133584919106894)))

References

http://www.teos-10.org/pubs/gsw/html/gsw_O2sol.html

See Also

Other things related to oxygen: gsw_O2sol_SP_pt()

  • Maintainer: Dan Kelley
  • License: GPL (>= 2) | file LICENSE
  • Last published: 2024-08-19