Recent Results on the Accurate Measurements of the Dielectric Constant of Seawater at 1.413GHz

Measurements of the complex dielectric constant of seawater at 30.00 psu, 35.00 psu and 38.27 psu over the temperature range from 5degC to 35degC at 1.413 GHz are given and compared with the Klein-Swift results. A resonant cavity technique is used. The calibration constant used in the cavity perturbation formulas is determined experimentally using methanol and ethanediol (ethylene gycol) as reference liquids. Analysis of the data shows that the measurements are accurate to better than 1.0% in almost all cases studied.