Continuing with the RBRconcerto³ C.T.D.pH logger, the conductivity reading from Channel-1 without corrections is given by a simple linear function: where R is the normalized voltage ratio from Channel-1 monitoring conductivity, c0,c1 are the core coefficients of the linear equation, and Craw is the uncorrected conductivity output, reported in mS/cm for RBR marine instruments.
The equation which corrects the output for the effects of both temperature and pressure on the conductivity cell is: Casting the equation into the style used by the logger would give:
where
- Craw is the uncorrected conductivity, c0 + c1 × R,
- x0, x1 correspond respectively to the temperature compensation constants "Kc1", "Kc2"
- x2, x3, x4, x5, x6 correspond respectively to the pressure compensation constants "Kp1", "Kp2", "Kp3", "Kp4", "Kp5"
- x7 is the calibration temperature "Tcal" in °C,
- x8 is the calibration pressure "Pcal" in dbar,
- n0 is the index of the temperature channel, in this example 2,
value(n0) is the final output value of the temperature channel in °C, - n1 is the index of the pressure channel, in this example 3,
value(n1) is the final output value of the pressure channel in dbar, - Ccorr is the corrected output in mS/cm.
It is quite common to have a logger monitoring conductivity and temperature without a pressure channel, typically deployed at a known, constant depth. In this case, n1 would be set to "value", and so value(n1) would be substituted by a default value (see the "settings pressure" command).
>> calibration 1 type << calibration 1 type = cond11 |
Confirm the channel type. >> calibration 1 datetime = 20171201000000, c0 = 0.2346, c1 = 153.4873 |
Set the core coefficients. >> calibration 1 datetime = 20171201000000, x0 = 0.2003, x1 = 0.2943, x2 = 0.005, x3 = 0.085, x4 = 0.0001, x5 = 0.0000, x6= 0.0000, x7 = 15.028, x8 = 10.0025 |
Set the cross-channel correction coefficients. >> calibration 1 << calibration 1 type = cond11, datetime = 20171201000000, c0 = 0.2346, c1 = 153.4873, x0 = 0.2003, x1 = 0.2943, x2 = 0.005, x3 = 0.085, x4 = 0.0001, x5 = 0.0000, x6= 0.0000, x7 = 15.028, x8 = 10.0025, n0 = 2, n1 = 3 |
Request confirmation of all calibration coefficients. |