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- Title
Development of thermodynamic potentials for fluid water, ice and seawater: a new standard for oceanography.
- Authors
Feistel, R.; Wright, D. G.; Miyagawa, K.; Hruby, J.; Jackett, D. R.; McDougall, T. J.; Wagner, W.
- Abstract
A new seawater standard has been developed for oceanographic and engineering applications that consists of three independent thermodynamic potential functions, derived from extended distinct sets of very accurate experimental data. The results have been formulated as Releases of the International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam, IAPWS (1996, 2006, 2008) and are to be adopted internationally by other organizations in subsequent years. In order to successfully perform computations such as phase equilibria from combinations of these potential functions, mutual compatibility and consistency of these independent mathematical functions must be ensured. In this article, a brief review of their separate development and ranges of validity is given. We analyse background details on the conditions specified at their reference states, the triple point and the standard ocean state, to ensure the mutual consistency of the different formulations, and we consider the necessity and possibility of numerically evaluating metastable states of liquid water. Computed from this formulation in quadruple precision (128 bit floating point numbers), tables of numerical reference values are provided as anchor points for the consistent incorporation of additional potential functions in the future, and as unambiguous benchmarks to be used in the determination of numerical uncertainty estimates of double-precision implementations on different platforms that may be customized for special purposes.
- Subjects
SEAWATER; OCEANOGRAPHY; INTERNATIONAL agencies; MATHEMATICAL functions; BENCHMARKING (Management); WATER
- Publication
Ocean Science Discussions, 2008, Vol 5, Issue 3, p375
- ISSN
1812-0806
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/osd-5-375-2008