Arctic Sea Surface Salinity L3 maps (V.3.0) [Dataset]

• Main Authors: Martínez, Justino, Gabarró, Carolina, Turiel, Antonio
• Other Authors: European Space Agency, Turiel, Antonio 000-0001-6103-224X, Martínez, Justino [e-mail], Gabarró, Carolina [e-mail], Turiel, Antonio [e-mail]
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: CSIC - Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (ICM) 2019
• Subjects: Sea surface salinity; Brightness temperature; L-band; SMOS; Satellite data; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.20350/digitalCSIC/9065; http://hdl.handle.net/10261/194207; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000844

Develop a new algorithm and novel approaches with the aim of producing the best quality SSS product of the Arctic region of well-characterized accuracy using SMOS data. Data acquisition Satellite: ESA SMOS mission (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity). Time coverage: 01 January, 2011 - 31 August, 2019. Time resolution: 9 days. Maps frequency generation: Daily. Spatial coverage: Latitude range: 50ºN-90ºN Longitude range: 180ºW-180ºE. Spatial resolution: 25 km. Spatial projection: Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area. Spatial grid: WGS 84 / NSIDC EASE-Grid 2.0 North (EPGS:6931). Format NetCDF. Climate and Forecast (CF) conventions version: 1.6. Project Arctic+ salinity. Funding European Space Agency under contract 4000125590/18/I-BG Sea surface salinity; Sea surface salinity uncertainty; Sea surface salinity anomaly; Sea surface salinity quality flag Peer reviewed