Retrieved Sea Surface Salinity Dependence on Multisource Auxiliary Data within the SMOS mission

Author

Sabia, Roberto ; Camps, Adriano ; Vall-llossera, Mercé ; Reul, Nicolas

Author_Institution

Dept. of Signal Theory & Commun., Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona

fYear

2006

fDate

2006

Firstpage

109

Lastpage

114

Abstract

In the framework of the "synergetic aspects and auxiliary data concepts for sea surface salinity measurements from space" project, efforts have been oriented towards a quantitative analysis of sea surface salinity (SSS) retrieval using different auxiliary data sets. This study aims to contribute to the assessment of the SMOS salinity retrieval error budget, in view of the upcoming ground segment development. An estimation of different auxiliary parameters influence on retrieved SSS was performed, in order to quantitatively predict at what extent is reasonable to expect to retrieve salinity. Statistical distributions of the spatio-temporal averaged errors are provided

Keywords

oceanographic techniques; seawater; SMOS mission; SMOS salinity retrieval error budget; multisource auxiliary data; sea surface salinity retrieval; spatiotemporal averaged errors; Brightness temperature; Information retrieval; Instruments; Microwave imaging; Microwave radiometry; Ocean temperature; SMOS mission; Sea measurements; Sea surface salinity; Wind forecasting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

IEEE MicroRad, 2006

Conference_Location

SanJuan

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9417-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MICRAD.2006.1677072

Filename

1677072