gsw_SS0

Standard Ocean Reference Salinity

Contents

USAGE:

SS0 = gsw_SS0

DESCRIPTION:

SSO is the Standard Ocean Reference Salinity (35.16504 g/kg).
SSO is the best estimate of the Absolute Salinity of Standard Seawater
When the seawater sample has a Practical Salinity, SP, of 35
(Millero et al., 2008), and this number is a fundmental part of the 
TEOS-10 definition of seawater.

OUTPUT:

SS0  =  Standard Ocean Reference Salinity.                      [ g/kg ]

EXAMPLE:

SS0 = gsw_SS0
SS0 =
  35.16504

AUTHOR:

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

VERSION NUMBER:

3.01 (18th May, 2011)

REFERENCE:

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 appendices A.3, A.5 and Table D.4 of this TEOS-10 Manual.
Millero, F. J., R. Feistel, D. G. Wright, and T. J. McDougall, 2008: 
  The composition of Standard Seawater and the definition of the 
  Reference-Composition Salinity Scale, Deep-Sea Res. I, 55, 50-72. 
   See Table 4 and section 5 of this paper.
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