gsw_sound_speed_CT_exact

sound speed

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USAGE:

sound_speed_CT_exact = gsw_sound_speed_CT_exact(SA,CT,p)

DESCRIPTION:

Calculates the speed of sound in seawater.
Note that this function uses the full Gibbs function.  There is an 
alternative to calling this function, namely gsw_sound_speed(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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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:

sound_speed_CT_exact  =  speed of sound in seawater                [ m/s ]

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;]
sound_speed_CT_exact = gsw_sound_speed_CT_exact(SA,CT,p)
sound_speed_CT_exact =
1.0e+003 *
   1.542563864078558
   1.542689879196941
   1.530906501030040
   1.494531202378831
   1.487608409464569
   1.484268813221961

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. (2.17.1) 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