Salinity measurements during the Gulf Stream Experiment

Author

Le Vine, D.M. ; Koblinsky, C. ; Howden, S. ; Haken, M. ; Goodberlet, M.

Author_Institution

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

Volume

6

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

2537

Abstract

The Gulf Stream Experiment was conducted in late summer, 1999, as part of research at the Goddard Space Flight Center on passive, microwave remote sensing of salinity in the open ocean. Measurements were made about 250 km east of Delaware Bay between the waters of the continental shelf and the north wall of the Gulf Stream. The instruments included the airborne L-band radiometers ESTAR and SLFMR. Ships and drifter buoys provided surface truth. Preliminary results show good agreement between the microwave measurements and ship measurements of salinity

Keywords

oceanographic regions; oceanographic techniques; radiometry; remote sensing; AD 1999; Delaware Bay; ESTAR; Gulf Stream Experiment; L-band; North Atlantic; SLFMR; UHF; measurement technique; microwave radiometry; ocean; passive method; remote sensing; salinity; sea surface salinity; summer; Aircraft; Electromagnetic heating; Instruments; L-band; Marine vehicles; Microwave measurements; Ocean temperature; Radiometers; Sea measurements; Sea surface;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. IEEE 2000 International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6359-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2000.859632

Filename

859632