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| Vinogradova, Nadya; Lee, Tong; Boutin, Jacqueline; Drushka, Kyla; Fournier, Severine; Sabia, Roberto; Stammer, Detlef; Bayler, Eric; Reul, Nicolas; Gordon, Arnold; Melnichenko, Oleg; Li, Laifang; Hackert, Eric; Martin, Matthew; Kolodziejczyk, Nicolas; Hasson, Audrey; Brown, Shannon; Misra, Sidharth; Lindstrom, Eric. |
| Advances in L-band microwave satellite radiometry in the past decade, pioneered by ESA’s SMOS and NASA’s Aquarius and SMAP missions, have demonstrated an unprecedented capability to observe global sea surface salinity (SSS) from space. Measurements from these missions are the only means to probe the very-near surface salinity (top cm), providing a unique monitoring capability for the interfacial exchanges of water between the atmosphere and the upper-ocean, and delivering a wealth of information on various salinity processes in the ocean, linkages with the climate and water cycle, including land-sea connections, and providing constraints for ocean prediction models. The satellite SSS data are complimentary to the existing in situ systems such as Argo that... |
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Palavras-chave: Salinity; Remote sensing; Earth's observing systems; Future satellite missions; SMAP; SMOS; Aquarius. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00498/60985/64391.pdf |
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| Reul, Nicolas; Grodsky, S.a.; Arias, M.; Boutin, J.; Catany, R.; Chapron, Bertrand; D'Amico, F; Dinnat, E.; Donlon, C.; Fore, A.; Fournier, Severine; Guimbard, Sebastien; Hasson, A.; Kolodziejczyk, Nicolas; Lagerloef, G.; Lee, T.; Le Vine, D.m.; Lindstrom, E.; Maes, Christophe; Mecklenburg, S.; Meissner, T.; Olmedo, E.; Sabia, R.; Tenerelli, Joseph; Thouvenin-masson, C.; Turiel, A.; Vergely, J.l.; Vinogradova, N.; Wentz, F.; Yueh, S.. |
| Operated since the end of 2009, the European Space Agency (ESA) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite mission is the first orbiting radiometer that collects regular and global observations from space of two Essential Climate Variables of the Global Climate Observing System: Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) and Soil Moisture. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Aquarius mission, with the primary objective to provide global SSS measurements from space operated from mid-2011 to mid-2015. NASA's Soil Moisture Active-Passive (SMAP) mission, primarily dedicated to soil moisture measurements, but also monitoring SSS, has been operating since early 2015. The primary sensors onboard these three missions are passive microwave radiometers... |
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Palavras-chave: Sea surface salinity; Ocean microwave remote sensing; Radiometer; L-band; SMOS; Aquarius/SAC-D; SMAP. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00615/72750/71894.pdf |
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| Boutin, J.; Vergely, J. L.; Marchand, S.; D'Amico, F; Hasson, A.; Kolodziejczyk, Nicolas; Reul, Nicolas; Reverdin, G.; Vialard, J.. |
| Salinity observing satellites have the potential to monitor river fresh-water plumes mesoscale spatio-temporal variations better than any other observing system. In the case of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite mission, this capacity was hampered due to the contamination of SMOS data processing by strong land-sea emissivity contrasts. Kolodziejczyk et al. (2016) (hereafter K2016) developed a methodology to mitigate SMOS systematic errors in the vicinity of continents, that greatly improved the quality of the SMOS Sea Surface Salinity (SSS). Here, we find that SSS variability, however, often remained underestimated, such as near major river mouths. We revise the K2016 methodology with: a) a less stringent filtering of measurements in... |
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Palavras-chave: SMOS; Sea Surface Salinity; SMAP. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00441/55254/56819.pdf |
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