SMOS first data analysis for sea surface salinity determination
Jordi Font
(1)
,
Jacqueline Boutin
(2)
,
Nicolas Reul
(3)
,
Paul Spurgeon
(4)
,
Joaquim Ballabrera-Poy
(1)
,
Andrei Chuprin
(4)
,
Carolina Gabarró
(1)
,
Jérôme Gourrion
(1)
,
Sébastien Guimbard
(1)
,
Claire Hénocq
(5)
,
Samantha Lavender
(4)
,
Nicolas Martin
(2)
,
Justino Martínez
(1)
,
Michael Mcculloch
(4)
,
Ingo Meirold-Mautner
(5)
,
César Mugerin
(5)
,
François Petitcolin
(5)
,
Marcos Portabella
(1)
,
Roberto Sabia
(6)
,
Marco Talone
,
Joseph Tenerelli
(7)
,
Antonio Turiel
(1)
,
Jean-Luc Vergely
(5)
,
Philippe Waldteufel
(8)
,
Xiaobin Yin
(2)
,
Sonia Zine
(9)
,
Steven Delwart
(6)
1
ICM -
Institute of Marine Sciences / Institut de Ciències del Mar [Barcelona]
2 LOCEAN - Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques
3 IFREMER - Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer
4 ARGANS Limited
5 ACRI-ST - Analytic and Computational Research, Inc. - Earth Sciences
6 ESTEC - European Space Research and Technology Centre
7 CLS - Collecte Localisation Satellites
8 ESTER - LATMOS
9 IPAG - Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble
2 LOCEAN - Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques
3 IFREMER - Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer
4 ARGANS Limited
5 ACRI-ST - Analytic and Computational Research, Inc. - Earth Sciences
6 ESTEC - European Space Research and Technology Centre
7 CLS - Collecte Localisation Satellites
8 ESTER - LATMOS
9 IPAG - Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble
Jacqueline Boutin
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Nicolas Reul
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Carolina Gabarró
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Sébastien Guimbard
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Claire Hénocq
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Nicolas Martin
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César Mugerin
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Marco Talone
- Function : Author
Antonio Turiel
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Xiaobin Yin
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Sonia Zine
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Abstract
Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS), launched on 2 November 2009, is the first satellite mission addressing sea surface salinity (SSS) measurement from space. Its unique payload is the Microwave Imaging Radiometer using Aperture Synthesis (MIRAS), a new two-dimensional interferometer designed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and operating at the L-band frequency. This article presents a summary of SSS retrieval from SMOS observations and shows initial results obtained one year after launch. These results are encouraging, but also indicate that further improvements at various data processing levels are needed and hence are currently under investigation.