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gsw_SP_from_SR

Calculate Practical Salinity from Reference Salinity

Description

Calculate Practical Salinity from Reference Salinity

Usage

gsw_SP_from_SR(SR)

Arguments

`SR`	Reference Salinity [ g/kg ]

Details

The present R function works with a wrapper to a C function contained within the GSW-C system (Version 3.05-4 dated 2017-08-07, available at https://github.com/TEOS-10/GSW-C, as git commit '5b4d959e54031f9e972f3e863f63e67fa4f5bfec'), which stems from the GSW-Fortran system (https://github.com/TEOS-10/GSW-Fortran) which in turn stems from the GSW-Matlab system (https://github.com/TEOS-10/GSW-Matlab). Consult http://www.teos-10.org to learn more about these software systems, their authorships, and the science behind it all.

Value

Practical Salinity (PSS-78) [ unitless ]

References

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

Examples

SR <- c(34.5487, 34.7275, 34.8605, 34.6810, 34.5680, 34.5600)
SP <- gsw_SP_from_SR(SR)
expect_equal(SP, c(34.386552667080714, 34.564513505458834, 34.696889296869848,
                   34.518231743800094, 34.405762086435850, 34.397799632817147))

gsw

Gibbs Sea Water Functions

v1.0-5

GPL (>= 2) | file LICENSE

Authors

Dan Kelley [aut, cre, cph] (C wrapper plus R code, tests, and documentation), Clark Richards [aut, cph] (C wrapper plus R code, tests, and documentation), WG127 SCOR/IAPSO [aut, cph] (Original 'Matlab' and derived code)

Initial release

2017-08-08