Collecting and gridding complementary in-situ SST/SSS data for the calibration and validation of SMOS

Type Article
Date 2011-04
Language English
Author(s) Brion Emilie1, Gaillard FabienneORCID1, Petit De La Villeon LoicORCID2, Delcroix Thierry3, Alory Gael3, Reverdin Gilles4
Affiliation(s) 1 : LPO/IFREMER-CNRS-UBO-IRD, Plouzané, FRANCE
2 : SISMER/IFREMER, Plouzané, France
3 : LEGOS, Toulouse, France
4 : LOCEAN, UMR 7159 CNRS / IRD / Université Pierre et Marie Curie/MNHN / Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, PARIS, France
Source Mercator Ocean – CORIOLIS Quarterly Newsletter, 2011-04 , N. 41 , P. 33-40
Note Special Issue jointly coordinated by Mercator Ocean and Coriolis focusing on Ocean Observations
Abstract Providing reliable in-situ surface temperature and salinity data over the global ocean within short delay is critical for the calibration and validation of the recently launched Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Satellite (SMOS). The work presented here has been undertaken as a contribution to GLOSCAL (Global Ocean Surface Salinity Calibration and Validation), retained as one of the ESA CalVal Projects. Based on the Coriolis datasets and using In Situ Analysis System (ISAS) tool, a near real time analysis system has been developed. It provides gridded fields of sea surface salinity and temperature and the corresponding in-situ dataset. In addition to research activities, these products would be used to help the quality control of SMOS satellite data, and to improve the algorithms and monitor sensor drifts and biases.
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Brion Emilie, Gaillard Fabienne, Petit De La Villeon Loic, Delcroix Thierry, Alory Gael, Reverdin Gilles (2011). Collecting and gridding complementary in-situ SST/SSS data for the calibration and validation of SMOS. Mercator Ocean – CORIOLIS Quarterly Newsletter, (41), 33-40. Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00114/22548/