Articles | Volume 13, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-857-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-857-2021
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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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.
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