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swTFreeze: Seawater freezing temperature

Description

Compute freezing temperature of seawater.

Usage

swTFreeze(salinity, pressure=NULL)

Arguments

salinity
either salinity [PSU] or a ctd object from which salinity will be inferred.
pressure
seawater pressure [dbar]

Value

  • Temperature [$^\circ$C]

Details

In the first form, the argument is a ctd object, from which the salinity and pressure values are extracted and used to for the calculation.

References

UNESCO tech. papers in the marine science no. 28. 1978 eighth report JPOTS Annex 6 freezing point of seawater F.J. Millero pp.29-35.

Examples

Run this code
Tf <- swTFreeze(40, 500) # -2.588567 degC

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