gsw_alpha_wrt_t_ice function

Ice Thermal Expansion Coefficient with Respect to in-situ Temperature

Thermal expansion coefficient of ice, with respect to in-situ temperature.

gsw_alpha_wrt_t_ice(t, p)

Arguments

• t: in-situ temperature (ITS-90) [ degC ]
• p: sea pressure [dbar], i.e. absolute pressure [dbar] minus 10.1325 dbar

Returns

thermal expansion coefficient with respect to in-situ temperature [ 1/K ]

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

t <- c(-10.7856, -13.4329, -12.8103, -12.2600, -10.8863, -8.4036)
p <-  c(     10,       50,      125,      250,      600,    1000)
alpha <- gsw_alpha_wrt_t_ice(t, p)
stopifnot(all.equal(alpha*1e3, c(0.154472408751279, 0.153041866100900, 0.153232698269327,
                                 0.153297634665747, 0.153387461617896, 0.153938395452558)))

References

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

See Also

Other things related to density: gsw_CT_from_rho(), gsw_CT_maxdensity(), gsw_SA_from_rho(), gsw_alpha(), gsw_alpha_on_beta(), gsw_alpha_wrt_t_exact(), gsw_beta(), gsw_beta_const_t_exact(), gsw_infunnel(), gsw_pot_rho_t_exact(), gsw_rho(), gsw_rho_alpha_beta(), gsw_rho_first_derivatives(), gsw_rho_first_derivatives_wrt_enthalpy(), gsw_rho_ice(), gsw_rho_t_exact(), gsw_sigma0(), gsw_sigma1(), gsw_sigma2(), gsw_sigma3(), gsw_sigma4(), gsw_specvol(), gsw_specvol_alpha_beta(), gsw_specvol_anom_standard(), gsw_specvol_ice(), gsw_specvol_t_exact()