[MITgcm-devel] TEOS-10

[Martin Losch]

Hi there, 

there is this new equation of state <http://www.teos-10.org>
I was wondering, if it would be useful to have it in the code as an additional option, but I am not quite clear about the details. At the above web-page there is a set of fortran functions to compute density and alpha/beta from "absolute salinity" and "conservative temperature". I guess, one needs to convert from potential temperature to conservative temperature (although the difference appears to be small) and there is code for that too, and maybe even from absolute to practical scalinity (although I think it would as valid to interpret our variable SALT as absolute salinity).

Are there any opinions on that? 
It should be easy to implement the stuff, but is it also useful?

Martin