gsw_beta

saline contraction coefficient at constant 
Conservative Temperature. (75-term equation)

Contents

USAGE:

beta = gsw_beta(SA,CT,p)

DESCRIPTION:

Calculates the saline (i.e. haline) contraction coefficient of seawater
at constant Conservative Temperature using the computationally-efficient
75-term expression for specific volume in terms of SA, CT and p 
(Roquet et al., 2015).
Note that the 75-term equation has been fitted in a restricted range of 
parameter space, and is most accurate inside the "oceanographic funnel" 
described in  McDougall et al. (2003).  The GSW library function 
"gsw_infunnel(SA,CT,p)" is avaialble to be used if one wants to test if 
some of one's data lies outside this "funnel".
TEOS-10 
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contraction coefficient at constant Conservative
Temperature.

INPUT:

SA  =  Absolute Salinity                                          [ g/kg ]
CT  =  Conservative Temperature (ITS-90)                         [ deg C ]
p   =  sea pressure                                               [ dbar ]
       ( i.e. 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:

beta  =  saline contraction coefficient                           [ kg/g ]
         at constant 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;]
beta = gsw_beta(SA,CT,p)
beta =
1.0e-003 *
   0.717521909550091
   0.717657376442386
   0.726169785748549
   0.750420924314564
   0.754903052075032
   0.756841573481865

AUTHOR:

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

VERSION NUMBER:

3.05 (16th February, 2015)

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. (2.19.3) of this TEOS-10 manual.
McDougall, T.J., D.R. Jackett, D.G. Wright and R. Feistel, 2003: 
 Accurate and computationally efficient algorithms for potential 
 temperature and density of seawater.  J. Atmosph. Ocean. Tech., 20,
 pp. 730-741.
Roquet, F., G. Madec, T.J. McDougall and P.M. Barker, 2015: Accurate
 polynomial expressions for the density and specific volume of seawater 
 using the TEOS-10 standard.  Ocean Modelling, 90, pp. 29-43. 
 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2015.04.002
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