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Computes seawater spiciness using gsw::gsw_spiciness0() for surface referenced computation.

Usage

swSpiciness0(salinity, temperature, pressure, longitude, latitude)

Arguments

salinity

either salinity, or an oce object that contains salinity, temperature, pressure, longitude and latitude.

temperature

in-situ temperature (ignored if salinity is an oce object)

pressure

seawater pressure in dbar (ignored if salinity is an oce object)

longitude, latitude

observation location (ignored if salinity is an oce object).

Value

seawater spiciness with respect to a reference pressure of 0 dbar (that is, the sea surface), as defined in the gsw (TEOS-10) system (McDougall et al, 2011).

References

McDougall, T.J. and P.M. Barker, 2011: Getting started with TEOS-10 and the Gibbs Seawater (GSW) Oceanographic Toolbox, 28pp., SCOR/IAPSO WG127, ISBN 978-0-646-55621-5.

Author

Dan Kelley