function [conc_Xe] = Xesol(S,T) % Xesol Solubility of Xe in sea water %========================================================================= % Xesol Version 1.2 1/11/2007 % Author: Roberta C. Hamme (University of Victoria) % % USAGE: concXe = Xesol(S,T) % % DESCRIPTION: % Solubility (saturation) of xenon (Xe) in sea water % at 1-atm pressure of air including saturated water vapor % % INPUT: (if S and T are not singular they must have same dimensions) % S = salinity [PSS] % T = temperature [degree C] % % OUTPUT: % concXe = solubility of Xe [umol/kg] % % AUTHOR: Roberta Hamme (rhamme@ucsd.edu) % % REFERENCE: % R. Hamme fit to data of % D. Wood and R. Caputi (1966) "Solubilities of Kr and Xe in fresh and sea water" % U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, Technical Report USNRDL-TR-988, % San Francisco, CA, pp. 14. % % DISCLAIMER: % This software is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. %========================================================================= % CALLER: general purpose % CALLEE: none %---------------------- % Check input parameters %---------------------- if nargin ~=2 error('Xesol.m: Must pass 2 parameters') end %if % CHECK S,T dimensions and verify consistent [ms,ns] = size(S); [mt,nt] = size(T); % Check that T&S have the same shape or are singular if ((ms~=mt) | (ns~=nt)) & (ms+ns>2) & (mt+nt>2) error('Xesol: S & T must have same dimensions or be singular') end %if %------ % BEGIN %------ % convert T to scaled temperature temp_S = log((298.15 - T)./(273.15 + T)); % constants from fit procedure of Hamme and Emerson 2004 to Wood and Caputi data A0_xenon = -7.48588; A1_xenon = 5.08763; A2_xenon = 4.22078; B0_xenon = -8.17791e-3; B1_xenon = -1.20172e-2; % Eqn (1) of Hamme and Emerson 2004 conc_Xe = exp(A0_xenon + A1_xenon*temp_S + A2_xenon*temp_S.^2 + S.*(B0_xenon + B1_xenon*temp_S)); return