Sea surface salinity and temperature in the southern Atlantic Ocean from South African icebreakers, 2010–2017

Aulicino, Giuseppe; Cotroneo, Yuri; Ansorge, Isabelle; van den Berg, Marcel; Cesarano, Cinzia; Belmonte Rivas, Maria; Olmedo Casal, Estrella

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1227-2018

Articles | Volume 10, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1227-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1227-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 3

05 Jul 2018

| 05 Jul 2018

Sea surface salinity and temperature in the southern Atlantic Ocean from South African icebreakers, 2010–2017

Giuseppe Aulicino, Yuri Cotroneo, Isabelle Ansorge, Marcel van den Berg, Cinzia Cesarano, Maria Belmonte Rivas, and Estrella Olmedo Casal

Data sets

Sea surface temperature and salinity collected aboard the S.A. AGULHAS II and S.A. AGULHAS in the South Atlantic Ocean and Southern Ocean from 2010-12-08 to 2017-02-02 G. Aulicino, Y. Cotroneo, I. Ansorge, and M. van den Berg https://doi.org/10.7289/V56M3545

Short summary

We present sea surface salinity and temperature data collected across the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean by thermosalinographs on board Agulhas-I and Agulhas-II research vessels. After a rigorous quality control, data have been validated through comparison with water samples and independent products. Hence this dataset represents a valuable tool for validating salinity observations provided by SMOS and Aquarius missions and improving the study of climate variability over this region.