Convert from Absolute Salinity to Preformed Salinity
Calculate Preformed Salinity from Absolute Salinity, pressure, longitude, and latitude.
gsw_Sstar_from_SA(SA, p, longitude, latitude)
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 dbarlongitude: 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.)Preformed Salinity [ g/kg ]
If SA is a matrix and if its dimensions correspond to the lengths of longitude and latitude, then the latter are converted to analogous matrices with expand.grid.
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.
SA <- c(34.7118, 34.8915, 35.0256, 34.8472, 34.7366, 34.7324) p <- c( 10, 50, 125, 250, 600, 1000) lat <- c( 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4) long <- c( 188, 188, 188, 188, 188, 188) Sstar <- gsw_Sstar_from_SA(SA,p,long,lat) stopifnot(all.equal(Sstar, c(34.711575335926490, 34.891138777337822, 35.024705401162166, 34.843564118358302, 34.729005527604883, 34.719712883389462)))
http://www.teos-10.org/pubs/gsw/html/gsw_Sstar_from_SA.html
Other things related to salinity: gsw_C_from_SP(), gsw_SA_from_SP(), gsw_SA_from_SP_Baltic(), gsw_SA_from_Sstar(), gsw_SP_from_C(), gsw_SP_from_SA(), gsw_SP_from_SK(), gsw_SP_from_SR(), gsw_SP_from_Sstar(), gsw_SR_from_SP(), gsw_Sstar_from_SP(), gsw_deltaSA_from_SP()