New insights into SMOS sea surface salinity retrievals in the Arctic Ocean
International audience Since 2010, the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite mission monitors the earth emission at L-Band. It provides the longest time series of Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) from space over the global ocean. However, the SSS retrieval at high latitudes is a challenge beca...
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International audience Since 2010, the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite mission monitors the earth emission at L-Band. It provides the longest time series of Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) from space over the global ocean. However, the SSS retrieval at high latitudes is a challenge because of the low sensitivity L-Band radiometric measurements to SSS in cold waters and to the contamination of SMOS measurements by the vicinity of continents, of sea ice and of Radio Frequency Interferences. In this paper, we assess the quality of weekly SSS fields derived from swath-ordered instantaneous SMOS SSS (so called Level 2) distributed by the European Space Agency. These products are filtered according to new criteria. We use the pseudo-dielectric constant retrieved from SMOS brightness temperatures to filter SSS pixels polluted by sea ice. We identify that the dielectric constant model and the sea surface temperature auxiliary parameter used as prior information in the SMOS SSS retrieval induce significant systematic errors at low temperatures. We propose a novel empirical correction to mitigate those sources of errors at high latitudes.Comparisons with in-situ measurements ranging from 1 to 11 m depths spotlight huge vertical stratification in fresh regions. This emphasizes the need to consider in-situ salinity as close as possible to the sea surface when validating L-band radiometric SSS which are representative of the first top centimeter.SSS Standard deviation of differences (STDD) between weekly SMOS SSS and in-situ near surface salinity significantly decrease after applying the SSS correction, from 1.46 pss to 1.28 pss. The correlation between new SMOS SSS and in-situ near surface salinity reaches 0.94. SMOS estimates better capture SSS variability in the Arctic Ocean in comparison to TOPAZ reanalysis (STDD between TOPAZ and in-situ SSS = 1.86 pss), particularly in river plumes with very large SSS spatial gradients. |
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New insights into SMOS sea surface salinity retrievals in the Arctic Ocean |
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New insights into SMOS sea surface salinity retrievals in the Arctic Ocean |
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New insights into SMOS sea surface salinity retrievals in the Arctic Ocean |
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New insights into SMOS sea surface salinity retrievals in the Arctic Ocean |
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New insights into SMOS sea surface salinity retrievals in the Arctic Ocean |
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new insights into smos sea surface salinity retrievals in the arctic ocean |
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-02959141v1 2023-05-15T14:56:49+02:00 New insights into SMOS sea surface salinity retrievals in the Arctic Ocean Supply, Alexandre Boutin, Jacqueline Vergely, Jean-Luc Kolodziejczyk, Nicolas Reverdin, Gilles Reul, Nicolas Tarasenko, Anastasiia Processus et interactions de fine échelle océanique (PROTEO) Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN) Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)) École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU) Analytic and Computational Research, Inc. - Earth Sciences (ACRI-ST) Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS) Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet) CNES-TOSCA ‘SMOS-Ocean’ 2020 https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-02959141 https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-02959141/document https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-02959141/file/Supply%20et%20al.%20-%202020%20-%20New%20insights%20into%20SMOS%20sea%20surface%20salinity%20retrie.pdf https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112027 en eng HAL CCSD Elsevier info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112027 hal-02959141 https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-02959141 https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-02959141/document https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-02959141/file/Supply%20et%20al.%20-%202020%20-%20New%20insights%20into%20SMOS%20sea%20surface%20salinity%20retrie.pdf doi:10.1016/j.rse.2020.112027 WOS: 000571215100003 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 0034-4257 EISSN: 1879-0704 Remote Sensing of Environment https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-02959141 Remote Sensing of Environment, Elsevier, 2020, 249, pp.112027. ⟨10.1016/j.rse.2020.112027⟩ SMOS Sea surface salinity Arctic Ocean [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography [SDE.IE]Environmental Sciences/Environmental Engineering info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2020 ftccsdartic https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112027 2021-12-19T00:52:57Z International audience Since 2010, the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite mission monitors the earth emission at L-Band. It provides the longest time series of Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) from space over the global ocean. However, the SSS retrieval at high latitudes is a challenge because of the low sensitivity L-Band radiometric measurements to SSS in cold waters and to the contamination of SMOS measurements by the vicinity of continents, of sea ice and of Radio Frequency Interferences. In this paper, we assess the quality of weekly SSS fields derived from swath-ordered instantaneous SMOS SSS (so called Level 2) distributed by the European Space Agency. These products are filtered according to new criteria. We use the pseudo-dielectric constant retrieved from SMOS brightness temperatures to filter SSS pixels polluted by sea ice. We identify that the dielectric constant model and the sea surface temperature auxiliary parameter used as prior information in the SMOS SSS retrieval induce significant systematic errors at low temperatures. We propose a novel empirical correction to mitigate those sources of errors at high latitudes.Comparisons with in-situ measurements ranging from 1 to 11 m depths spotlight huge vertical stratification in fresh regions. This emphasizes the need to consider in-situ salinity as close as possible to the sea surface when validating L-band radiometric SSS which are representative of the first top centimeter.SSS Standard deviation of differences (STDD) between weekly SMOS SSS and in-situ near surface salinity significantly decrease after applying the SSS correction, from 1.46 pss to 1.28 pss. The correlation between new SMOS SSS and in-situ near surface salinity reaches 0.94. SMOS estimates better capture SSS variability in the Arctic Ocean in comparison to TOPAZ reanalysis (STDD between TOPAZ and in-situ SSS = 1.86 pss), particularly in river plumes with very large SSS spatial gradients. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Ocean Sea ice Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Arctic Arctic Ocean Remote Sensing of Environment 249 112027 |