Oceanographic utilities

Version 3.0 November 2000

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Available web-based utilities:

Calculators

Density from temperature, salinity and pressure.
Sound speed from temperature, salinity and pressure.
Potential temperature from in-situ temperature and pressure.
Freezing point of seawater.
Salinity from conductivity ratio.
Salinity from conductivity, temperature and pressure.
Coriolis frequency.
Distance between two positions.

Calculating and graphing routines

Potential temperature, potential density and Brunt-Väisälä frequency.
Geostrophic current and volume transport.
Graphic display methods for ocean currents.
Graphing wind and calculating wind stress data.
Calculating and graphing co-oscillation tides and seiches in narrow gulfs and basins.
Designing a station plan for an oceanographic research voyage.

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This page last updated 16 February 2005