Assessment of Satellite-Derived Sea Surface Salinity in the Indian Ocean
Description:
The study has been motivated by the desire to assess the performance of sea surface salinity (SSS) from the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite launched by the European Space Agency. Daily Level 3 product on a 0.25° × 0.25° grid for the year 2010 has been used for this assessment in the Indian Ocean. Various data sets, like the in situ data sets available from the Research Moored Array for African-Asian-Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction (RAMA) buoys and Argo floats and also the data sets from modular ocean model version 3 simulations, have been utilized for this purpose. [Source: Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE]
