Improved BEC SMOS Arctic Sea Surface Salinity product v3.1

Abstract T B - 1 T B 0.3 K psu - 1), making the retrieval of the SSS in the cold waters even more challenging. Due to this limitation, the ESA launched a specific initiative in 2019, the Arctic+Salinity project (AO/1-9158/18/I-BG), 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. The product consists of 9 d averaged maps in an EASE 2.0 grid of 25 km. The product is freely distributed from the Barcelona Expert Center (BEC, http://bec.icm.csic.es/, last access: 25 January 2022) with the DOI number 10.20350/digitalCSIC/12620. The major change in this new product is its improvement of the effective spatial resolution that permits better monitoring of the mesoscale structures (larger than 50 km), which benefits the river discharge monitoring.

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Improved BEC SMOS Arctic Sea Surface Salinity product v3.1 ; volume:14 ; number:1 ; year:2022 ; pages:307-323 ; extent:17 ; Earth system science data ; 14, Heft 1 (2022), 307-323 (gesamt 17)

Contributors, Places and Time

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

Further information

• DOI: 10.5194/essd-14-307-2022
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022020304243871055139
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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