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| Boutin, J.; Martin, N.; Yin, X.; Reul, Nicolas; Spurgeon, P.. |
| We validate Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) sea surface salinity (SSS) retrieved during August 2010 from the European Space Agency SMOS processing. Biases appear close to land and ice and between ascending and descending orbits; they are linked to image reconstruction issues and instrument calibration and remain under study. We validate the SMOS SSS in conditions where these biases appear to be small. We compare SMOS and ARGO SSS over four regions far from land and ice using only ascending orbits. Four modelings of the impact of the wind on the sea surface emissivity have been tested. Results suggest that the L-band brightness temperature is not linearly related to the wind speed at high winds as expected in the presence of emissive foam, but that... |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: L-Band; Microwave Radiometry; Ocean Salinity; Sea Surface. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00074/18557/16108.pdf |
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