gsw (version 1.2-0)

gsw_latentheat_evap_t: Latent heat of evaporation

Description

Latent heat of evaporation

Usage

gsw_latentheat_evap_t(SA, t)

Value

latent heat of evaporation [ J/kg ]

Arguments

SA

Absolute Salinity [ g/kg ]. The valid range for most `gsw` functions is 0 to 42 g/kg.

t

in-situ temperature (ITS-90) [ degC ]

Implementation Note

This R function uses a wrapper to a C function contained within the GSW-C system as updated 2022-10-11 at https://github.com/TEOS-10/GSW-C with git commit `657216dd4f5ea079b5f0e021a4163e2d26893371`.

The C function uses data from the library/gsw_data_v3_0.mat file provided in the GSW-Matlab source code, version 3.06-11. Unfortunately, this version of the mat file is no longer displayed on the TEOS-10.org website. Therefore, in the interests of making GSW-R be self-contained, a copy was downloaded from http://www.teos-10.org/software/gsw_matlab_v3_06_11.zip on 2022-05-25, the .mat file was stored in the developer/create_data directory of https://github.com/TEOS-10/GSW-R, and then the dataset used in GSW-R was created based on that .mat file.

Please consult http://www.teos-10.org to learn more about the various TEOS-10 software systems.

References

http://www.teos-10.org/pubs/gsw/html/gsw_latentheat_evap_t.html

See Also

Other things related to latent heat: gsw_latentheat_evap_CT(), gsw_latentheat_melting()

Examples

SA <- c(34.7118, 34.8915, 35.0256, 34.8472, 34.7366, 34.7324)
t <- c( 28.7856, 28.4329, 22.8103, 10.2600,  6.8863,  4.4036)
lh = gsw_latentheat_evap_t(SA, t)
stopifnot(all.equal(lh/1e6, c(2.429882982734836, 2.430730236218543, 2.444217294049004,
                              2.474137411322517, 2.482156276375029, 2.488054617630297)))