gsw_beta {gsw} | R Documentation |
Saline contraction coefficient at constant Conservative Temperature. (48-term equation)
gsw_beta(SA, CT, p)
SA |
Absolute Salinity [ g/kg ] |
CT |
Conservative Temperature [ deg C ] |
p |
sea pressure [ dbar ] |
saline contraction coefficient at constant Conservative Temperature [ kg/g ]
http://www.teos-10.org/pubs/gsw/html/gsw_beta.html
The temperature analogue to this is gsw_alpha
; other related functions
include gsw_alpha_wrt_t_exact
and gsw_alpha_on_beta
.
SA = c(34.7118, 34.8915, 35.0256, 34.8472, 34.7366, 34.7324) CT = c(28.7856, 28.4329, 22.8103, 10.2600, 6.8863, 4.4036) p = c( 10, 50, 125, 250, 600, 1000) beta <- gsw_beta(SA,CT,p)