theta {seacarb} | R Documentation |
Potential temperature of seawater
Description
Computes theta, the potential temperature of seawater given original temperature, salinity, pressure, and reference pressure
Usage
theta(S=35, T=25, P=0, Pref=0)
Arguments
S |
Salinity on the practical salinity scale, default is 35 |
T |
Temperature in degrees Celsius, default is 25oC |
P |
Hydrostatic pressure in bar (surface = 0; 1000 db = 100 bar), default is 0 |
Pref |
Reference hydrostatic pressure in bar, default is 0 |
Details
Computes the potential temperature of seawater relative to a
chosen reference pressure following Fofonoff and Millard (1983).
The potential temperature \theta
is the temperature that a
water parcel would have if were moved adiabatically to another pressure
level Pref
. Typically, the potential temperature is referenced
to the surface (Pref=0
). The potential teperature depends on
the original salinity S
, in-situ temperature T
and pressure P
.
This routine is essentially a wrapper for the swTheta
routine of the 'oce' package. Unlike the latter, pressure units here
are given in bars and method="unesco" is prescribed.
Value
theta |
potential temperature of seawater (C) |
Author(s)
James Orr james.orr@lsce.ipsl.fr
References
Fofonoff, P. and R. C. Millard Jr, 1983. Algorithms for computation of fundamental properties of seawater. Unesco Technical Papers in Marine Science, 44, 53 pp.
See Also
Examples
#Calculate the potential temperature for a sample at 1000 db referenced to the surface
theta <- theta(S=35, T=25, P=100, Pref=0)