Data description paper 28 Jan 2022
Data description paper | 28 Jan 2022
Improved BEC SMOS Arctic Sea Surface Salinity product v3.1
Justino Martínez et al.
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BEC SMOS Arctic SSS v3.1 Justino Martínez, Carolina Gabarró, and Antonio Turiel https://doi.org/10.20350/digitalCSIC/12620
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Measuring salinity from space is challenging since the sensitivity of the brightness temperature to sea surface salinity is low, but the retrieval of SSS in cold waters is even more challenging. In 2019, the ESA launched a specific initiative called Arctic+Salinity to produce an enhanced Arctic SSS product with better quality and resolution than the available products. This paper presents the methodologies used to produce the new enhanced Arctic SMOS SSS product.
Measuring salinity from space is challenging since the sensitivity of the brightness temperature...