PPT-GLOBAL SURFACE ALKALINITY FROM AQUARIUS SATELLITE

Debra A Willey Rana A Fine and Frank J Millero Rosenstiel School University of Miami 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway Miami FL 33149 USA Introduction The unprecedented salinity coverage from the Aquarius satellite . Current . Status and Future . Plans. Yi Chao, Co-Chair. (Jacqueline . Boutin. , Co-Chair). Aquarius Science Meeting. 12 November 2014. Satellite & In Situ Salinity (SISS. ) Working . Group. Established at the SMOS. Rain Impact . on the Aquarius . Salinity Retrievals. T. Meissner. , F. Wentz, J. Scott, K. Hilburn. Remote Sensing Systems. meissner@remss.com. 2014 Aquarius / SAC-D Science Team Meeting. November 11- 14, 2014. Thomas . Meissner,. Frank . Wentz, . Joel Scott, Kyle Hilburn. Remote . Sensing Systems. SISS Working Group. AGU . Fall Meeting 2014. December 18, 2014. San Francisco, USA. Rain . Freshening: Global. Maximum as . Observed by . Aquarius. Frederick . Bingham (1. ), Julius Busecke, Arnold Gordon, Claudia Giulivi (2) and Zhijin Li (3). . (. 1) Center for Marine Science,. . University of North Carolina Wilmington, . Aquarius/SAC-D Sea Surface Salinity from Space Acknowledgments Aquarius Web site http://aquarius.nasa.gov/Special thanks to the Aquarius Science Team for making this publication possible. Content: Nic in . Air Quality Decision . Models. AQAST Project. Physical Atmosphere Panel Meeting. April 25-26, 2012. Atlanta, GA. Richard . McNider. Arastoo. Pour . Biazar. (or . Arastoo. . McBiazar. ). University of Alabama in Huntsville. Algorithm. Frank . J. . Wentz and . Thomas . Meissner, . Remote Sensing Systems . Gary . S. . Lagerloef. , . Earth and Space Research. . David M. Le . Vine, . NASA Goddard. Presented at . 7. th. Aquarius/SAC-D Science Meeting. measurements. Wenqing Tang and Simon . Yueh. Jet Propulsion . Laboratoru. y. Drifters. N. of obs.. Pacific GYRE. 183453. MetOcean. 121940. ICM. 114784. http://www.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr/smos/. drifters. we compare measured . salinity across . metric distributions. . In . addition to traditional comparisons . between mean or median . values, the . 1%, 10%, 25%, 50%, 75%, 90% and 99% . quantiles of . the statistical . Seung-bum . Kim (JPL). Jae-hak . Lee (Korean Institute of Ocean Science and . Technology). Paolo de Matthaeis. . (GSFC). D. ata provision by I.C. Pang, Jeju Natl. Univ., S. Korea. Funded by OSST. Results available in JGR 2014 special issue.. Salinity. E. P. Dinnat. 1,2. , D. M. Le Vine. 1. , J. Boutin. 3. , X. Yin. 3. , . 1. Cryospheric Sciences Lab., NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, U.S.A. 2. Chapman University, Orange, CA, U.S.A.. 3. LOCEAN, Paris, France. Mississippi State University. Geosystems. Research Institute. NASA RPC Review (3/2/09). Aquarius Evaluation Team & Collaborators. MSU Team. Robert Moorhead. Xingang. Fan. Valentine . Anantharaj. E. Hackert, S. Akella, R. Kovach, K. Nakada, A. Borovikov, A. Molod, K. Drushka, and M. Jacob. Problem. : Satellite observes the top centimeter of the ocean. In rainy conditions, the vertical salinity gradient between SSS and first model layer (i.e., where these data are assimilated - S. Fournier S.. , Bingham F.M., Gonzalez-. Haro. C., Hayashi A., Carlin K.M.U., . Brodnitz. S.K., Gonzalez-. Gambau. V., and . Kuusela. M., 2023. Quantification of Aquarius, SMAP, SMOS and Argo-Based Gridded Sea Surface Salinity Product Sampling Errors. Remote Sensing. https://.