Six years of the new SMOS SSS maps in the Mediterranean Sea now available!

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Publié le 6 avril 2018

A new methodology using a combination of debiased non-Bayesian retrieval, DINEOF (Data Interpolating Empirical Orthogonal Functions) and multifractal fusion has been used to obtain 6 years of SMOS Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) fields over the North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.

This product has been developed by the Barcelona Expert Center and the GHER group at University of Liège (Belgium), under the ESA STSE project “SMOS sea surface salinity data in the Mediterranean Sea (SMOS+ Med)”. SMOS+ Med was leaded by Dr. Aida Alvera-Azcarate, from GHER.

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