Nine years of SMOS sea surface salinity global maps at the Barcelona Expert Center

Olmedo, Estrella; González-Haro, Cristina; Hoareau, Nina; Umbert, Marta; González-Gambau, Verónica; Martínez, Justino; Gabarró, Carolina; Turiel, Antonio

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-857-2021

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-857-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-857-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

Data description paper

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03 Mar 2021

Data description paper |

| 03 Mar 2021

Nine years of SMOS sea surface salinity global maps at the Barcelona Expert Center

Estrella Olmedo, Cristina González-Haro, Nina Hoareau, Marta Umbert, Verónica González-Gambau, Justino Martínez, Carolina Gabarró, and Antonio Turiel

Data sets

BEC SMOS Sea Surface Salinity global L3 product (V.2.0) E. Olmedo, C. González-Haro, V. González-Gambau, and A. Turiel http://dx.doi.org/10.20350/digitalCSIC/12601

BEC SMOS Sea Surface Salinity global L4 product (V.2.0) E. Olmedo, C. González-Haro, V. González-Gambau, and A. Turiel http://dx.doi.org/10.20350/digitalCSIC/12600

Short summary

After more than 10 years in orbit, the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) European mission is still a unique, high-quality instrument for providing soil moisture over land and sea surface salinity (SSS) over the oceans. At the Barcelona Expert Center (BEC), a new reprocessing of 9 years (2011–2019) of global SMOS SSS maps has been generated. This work presents the algorithms used in the generation of the BEC global SMOS SSS product v2.0, as well as an extensive quality assessment.