Impact on Sea Surface Salinity Retrieval of Multisource Auxiliary Data within the SMOS Mission

Abstract

Aiming to provide Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) maps with a spatio-temporal averaged accuracy of 0.1 psu, the SMOS community is increasingly focusing on the determination of a robust inversion scheme to enable SSS retrieval from L-band brightness temperature data. 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 SSS retrieval once different auxiliary data are plugged into the minimization procedure, providing statistical distributions of the spatio-temporal averaged errors.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 25, 2005
Accession Number
ADA450201

Entities

People

  • Adriano Camps
  • Merce Vall-llossera
  • Nicolas Reul
  • Roberto Sabia

Organizations

  • Polytechnic University of Catalonia

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Accuracy
  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Brightness
  • Data Sets
  • Dielectric Permittivity
  • Errors
  • Measurement
  • Salinity
  • Sea Ice
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • Sea Water
  • Simulations
  • Standards
  • Surface Roughness
  • Surface Temperature

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development

Technology Areas

  • Space