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TI Sea Surface Salinity Observations from Space with the SMOS Satellite: A New Means to Monitor the Marine Branch of the Water Cycle
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AF REUL, Nicolas
   FOURNIER, Severine
   BOUTIN, Jacqueline
   HERNANDEZ, Olga
   MAES, Christophe
   CHAPRON, Bertrand
   ALORY, Gael
   QUILFEN, Yves
   TENERELLI, Joseph
   MORISSET, Simmon
   KERR, Yann
   MECKLENBURG, Susanne
   DELWART, Steven
AS 1:1,2;2:1;3:3;4:3;5:4;6:1;7:4;8:1;9:5;10:3;11:6;12:7;13:7;
FF 1:PDG-ODE-LOS;2:PDG-ODE-LOS;3:;4:;5:;6:PDG-ODE-LOS;7:;8:PDG-ODE-LOS;9:;10:;11:;12:;13:;
C1 Inst Francais Rech Exploitat Mer, Lab Oceanog Spatiale, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
   Ctr Mediterranee, Zone Portuaire Bregaillon, F-83507 La Seyne Sur Mer, France.
   UMR 7159 CNRS UPMC IRD MNHN, Lab Oceanog & Climat Experimentat & Approches Num, Paris, France.
   Univ Toulouse, LEGOS, OMP, CNAP, Toulouse, France.
   CLS Radar Div, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
   CESBIO, Toulouse, France.
   ESA ESRIN, Frascati, Italy.
C2 IFREMER, FRANCE
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   CNRS, FRANCE
   UNIV TOULOUSE, FRANCE
   CLS, FRANCE
   CESBIO, FRANCE
   ESA, ITALY
SI TOULON
   BREST
   AUTRE
SE PDG-ODE-LOS
   AUTRE
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-france
   copubli-europe
   copubli-univ-france
IF 3.447
TC 99
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00152/26334/24430.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;Sea surface salinity;SMOS satellite;Passive microwave remote sensing;Oceanic freshwater cycle
AB While it is well known that the ocean is one of the most important component of the climate system, with a heat capacity 1,100 times greater than the atmosphere, the ocean is also the primary reservoir for freshwater transport to the atmosphere and largest component of the global water cycle. Two new satellite sensors, the ESA Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) and the NASA Aquarius SAC-D missions, are now providing the first space-borne measurements of the sea surface salinity (SSS). In this paper, we present examples demonstrating how SMOS-derived SSS data are being used to better characterize key land–ocean and atmosphere–ocean interaction processes that occur within the marine hydrological cycle. In particular, SMOS with its ocean mapping capability provides observations across the world’s largest tropical ocean fresh pool regions, and we discuss from intraseasonal to interannual precipitation impacts as well as large-scale river runoff from the Amazon–Orinoco and Congo rivers and its offshore advection. Synergistic multi-satellite analyses of these new surface salinity data sets combined with sea surface temperature, dynamical height and currents from altimetry, surface wind, ocean color, rainfall estimates, and in situ observations are shown to yield new freshwater budget insight. Finally, SSS observations from the SMOS and Aquarius/SAC-D sensors are combined to examine the response of the upper ocean to tropical cyclone passage including the potential role that a freshwater-induced upper ocean barrier layer may play in modulating surface cooling and enthalpy flux in tropical cyclone track regions.
PY 2014
PD MAY
SO Surveys In Geophysics
SN 0169-3298
PU Springer
VL 35
IS 3
UT 000333700700010
BP 681
EP 722
DI 10.1007/s10712-013-9244-0
ID 26334
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