gsw_alpha_CT_exact

thermal expansion coefficient with respect to 
Conservative Temperature

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USAGE:

alpha_CT_exact = gsw_alpha_CT_exact(SA,CT,p)

DESCRIPTION:

Calculates the thermal expansion coefficient of seawater with respect to
Conservative Temperature.
Note that this function uses the full Gibbs function.  There is an 
alternative to calling this function, namely gsw_alpha(SA,CT,p),
which uses the computationally efficient 75-term expression for specific
volume in terms of SA, CT and p (Roquet et al., 2015).
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respect to Conservative Temperature.

INPUT:

SA  =  Absolute Salinity                                          [ g/kg ]
CT  =  Conservative Temperature (ITS-90)                         [ deg C ]
p   =  sea pressure                                               [ dbar ]
       (ie. absolute pressure - 10.1325 dbar)
SA & CT need to have the same dimensions.
p may have dimensions 1x1 or Mx1 or 1xN or MxN, where SA & CT are MxN.

OUTPUT:

alpha_CT_exact  =  thermal expansion coefficient                   [ 1/K ]
                   with respect to Conservative Temperature

EXAMPLE:

SA = [34.7118; 34.8915; 35.0256; 34.8472; 34.7366; 34.7324;]
CT = [28.7856; 28.4329; 22.8103; 10.2600;  6.8863;  4.4036;]
p =  [     10;      50;     125;     250;     600;    1000;]
alpha_CT_exact = gsw_alpha_CT_exact(SA,CT,p)
alpha_CT_exact =
1.0e-003 *
   0.324533064867296
   0.322678526255574
   0.281368664494053
   0.173468360341201
   0.146876661394539
   0.130276253562739

AUTHOR:

Paul Barker and Trevor McDougall                      [ help@teos-10.org ]

VERSION NUMBER:

3.04 (10th December, 2013)

REFERENCES:

IOC, SCOR and IAPSO, 2010: The international thermodynamic equation of
 seawater - 2010: Calculation and use of thermodynamic properties.
 Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, Manuals and Guides No. 56,
 UNESCO (English), 196 pp.  Available from the TEOS-10 web site.
  See Eqn. (2.18.3) of this TEOS-10 manual.
Roquet, F., G. Madec, T.J. McDougall, P.M. Barker, 2015: Accurate
 polynomial expressions for the density and specifc volume of seawater
 using the TEOS-10 standard. Ocean Modelling.
The software is available from http://www.TEOS-10.org