RSKderivetheta.m

Arguments

Input

-Required- 

  • RSK

-Optional- 

  • latitudelatitude in decimal degrees north.
  • longitude : longitude in decimal degrees east.
  • seawaterLibrary: specify which library to use, should be either 'TEOS-10' or 'seawater', default is TEOS-10.

Output

  • RSK

The function derives potential temperature using the TEOS-10 GSW toolbox (http://www.teos-10.org/software.htm) or seawater library. The result is added to the RSK data structure, and the channel list is updated. The workflow of the function is as below:

  1. Calculate absolute salinity (SA)
    1. When latitude and longitude data are available (either from optional input or station data in RSK.data.latitude/longitude), the function will call SA = gsw_SA_from_SP(salinity,seapressure,lon,lat)
    2. When latitude and longitude data are absent, the function will call SA = gsw_SR_from_SP(salinity) assuming that reference salinity equals absolute salinity approximately.
  2. Calculate potential temperature pt0 = gsw_pt0_from_t(absolute salinity,temperature,seapressure)


Note

When geographic information is both available from optional inputs and the RSK.data structure, the optional inputs will override. The input latitude/longitude must be either a single value or a vector with the same length of RSK.data.