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

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'My review of Aulicino et al. paper', Anonymous Referee #1, 01 May 2018
- AC1: 'Answer to Referee#1', Giuseppe Aulicino, 26 May 2018
SC1: 'essd-2018-40 review - comments on text', Peter Wadhams, 12 May 2018
- SC2: 'Answer to Short Comments', Giuseppe Aulicino, 14 May 2018
EC1: 'Overview of the ESSD-2018-40 paper by Aulicino et al.', Giuseppe M.R. Manzella, 13 Jun 2018
- AC2: 'Answer to Topical Editor', Giuseppe Aulicino, 19 Jun 2018

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.