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Equipped with an L-band radiometer Aquarius provides an unprecedented sea surface salinity (SSS) dataset of the global oceans. However rain drops inducing freshening and roughness effects on the sea surface have made the SSS retrieval challenging for years. Therefore enormous efforts have been devoted to the improvement of the SSS retrieval algorithm. This paper describes a new method to separate the freshening and roughness effects of rainfall based on the combined active/passive observations of Aquarius. [Source: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing]
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