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TI The Salinity Pilot-Mission Exploitation Platform (Pi-MEP): A Hub for Validation and Exploitation of Satellite Sea Surface Salinity Data
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AF GUIMBARD, Sebastien
   REUL, Nicolas
   Sabia, Roberto
   HERLEDAN, Sylvain
   El Khoury Hanna, Ziad
   PIOLLE, Jean-Francois
   PAUL, Frederic
   Lee, Tong
   Schanze, Julian L
   Bingham, Frederick M
   Le Vine, David
   Vinogradova-Shiffer, Nadya
   Mecklenburg, Susanne
   Scipal, Klaus
   Laur, Henri
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C1 OceanScope, 38 Rue Jim Sevellec, 29200 Brest, France
   Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), IUEM Brest, University of Brest, CNRS, IRD, Ifremer, 29200 Brest, France
   Telespazio-UK for ESA, ESRIN, 00044 Frascati, Italy
   OceanDataLab, 870 Route de Deolen, 29280 Locmaria Plouzané, France
   Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91001, USA
   Earth & Space Research (ESR), Seattle, WA 98101, USA
   Center for Marine Science, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC 28403, USA
   Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20706, USA
   NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC 20001, USA
   European Space Agency, ECSAT, Harwell OX11, UK
   European Space Agency, ESRIN, 00044 Frascati, Italy
C2 OCEANSCOPE, FRANCE
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   TELESPAZIO VEGA UK LTD, ITALY
   OCEANDATALAB, FRANCE
   JET PROP LAB, USA
   ESR, USA
   UNIV N CAROLINA, USA
   GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, USA
   NASA HEADQUARTERS, USA
   ESA, UK
   ESA, ITALY
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   BREST
SE PDG-ODE-LOPS-SIAM
UM LOPS
IN WOS Ifremer UMR
   DOAJ
   copubli-france
   copubli-europe
   copubli-int-hors-europe
IF 5.349
TC 5
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00734/84591/89683.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;ocean;sea surface salinity;validation;remote sensing;L-band;SMOS;SMAP;aquarius;CCI
AB The Pilot-Mission Exploitation Platform (Pi-MEP) for salinity is an ESA initiative originally meant to support and widen the uptake of Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission data over the ocean. Starting in 2017, the project aims at setting up a computational web-based platform focusing on satellite sea surface salinity data, supporting studies on enhanced validation and scientific process over the ocean. It has been designed in close collaboration with a dedicated science advisory group in order to achieve three main objectives: gathering all the data required to exploit satellite sea surface salinity data, systematically producing a wide range of metrics for comparing and monitoring sea surface salinity products’ quality, and providing user-friendly tools to explore, visualize and exploit both the collected products and the results of the automated analyses. The Salinity Pi-MEP is becoming a reference hub for the validation of satellite sea surface salinity missions by providing valuable information on satellite products (SMOS, Aquarius, SMAP), an extensive in situ database (e.g., Argo, thermosalinographs, moorings, drifters) and additional thematic datasets (precipitation, evaporation, currents, sea level anomalies, sea surface temperature, etc.). Co-localized databases between satellite products and in situ datasets are systematically generated together with validation analysis reports for 30 predefined regions. The data and reports are made fully accessible through the web interface of the platform. The datasets, validation metrics and tools (automatic, user-driven) of the platform are described in detail in this paper. Several dedicated scienctific case studies involving satellite SSS data are also systematically monitored by the platform, including major river plumes, mesoscale signatures in boundary currents, high latitudes, semi-enclosed seas, and the high-precipitation region of the eastern tropical Pacific. Since 2019, a partnership in the Salinity Pi-MEP project has been agreed between ESA and NASA to enlarge focus to encompass the entire set of satellite salinity sensors. The two agencies are now working together to widen the platform features on several technical aspects, such as triple-collocation software implementation, additional match-up collocation criteria and sustained exploitation of data from the SPURS campaigns. 
PY 2021
PD NOV
SO Remote Sensing
SN 2072-4292
PU MDPI
VL 13
IS 22
UT 000723646000001
DI 10.3390/rs13224600
ID 84591
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