Articles | Volume 14, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-307-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-307-2022
Data description paper
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28 Jan 2022
Data description paper |  | 28 Jan 2022

Improved BEC SMOS Arctic Sea Surface Salinity product v3.1

Justino Martínez, Carolina Gabarró, Antonio Turiel, Verónica González-Gambau, Marta Umbert, Nina Hoareau, Cristina González-Haro, Estrella Olmedo, Manuel Arias, Rafael Catany, Laurent Bertino, Roshin P. Raj, Jiping Xie, Roberto Sabia, and Diego Fernández

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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.
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