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

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

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RC1: 'Review of Nine years of SMOS Sea Surface Salinity global maps at the Barcelona Expert Center', Anonymous Referee #1, 30 Oct 2020
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Estrella Olmedo, 30 Dec 2020
RC2: 'Review of 'Nine years of SMOS Sea Surface Salinity global maps at the Barcelona Expert Center'', Anonymous Referee #2, 28 Nov 2020
- AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Estrella Olmedo, 30 Dec 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Estrella Olmedo on behalf of the Authors (30 Dec 2020) Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (14 Jan 2021) by Giuseppe M.R. Manzella

AR by Estrella Olmedo on behalf of the Authors (14 Jan 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes

ED: Publish as is (18 Jan 2021) by Giuseppe M.R. Manzella

AR by Estrella Olmedo on behalf of the Authors (22 Jan 2021)

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.