oce (version 0.9-20)

airRho: Air density

Description

Compute, $rho$, the in-situ density of air.

Usage

airRho(temperature, pressure, humidity)

Arguments

temperature

in-situ temperature [$deg$C]

pressure

pressure in Pa (NOT kPa) -- ignored at present

humidity

ignored at present

Value

In-situ air density [kg/m$^3$].

Details

This will eventually be a proper equation of state, but for now it's just returns something from wikipedia (i.e. not trustworthy), and not using humidity.

References

National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency, 1976. U.S. Standard Atmosphere, 1976. NOAA-S/T 76-1562. (Available as of 2010-09-30 at http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19770009539_1977009539.pdf).

Examples

degC <- seq(0,30,length.out=100)
p <- seq(98,102,length.out=100) * 1e3
contour(x=degC, y=p, z=outer(degC,p,airRho), labcex=1)