PPT-Rain Freshening from Aquarius

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. alongshiptracksattheexpenseofaworsesynopticcover-age.Shipsalinityisalsomeasuredatafewmetersdepth.PriortoSMOSlaunch,H R. Bindlish, T. Jackson, M. Cosh. November 2014. Overview. Soil moisture algorithm. Soil moisture product. Validation. Linkage between Soil Moisture and SSS. Aquarius Soil Moisture Algorithm. The baseline soil moisture algorithm uses the . Shannon Brown and Sidharth Misra. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. 7th . Aquarius SAC-D Science Meeting. 11-13, April 2012. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Project Overview. Developing methods to track Aquarius calibration over Antarctica and rainforest regions. of . Salinity. Kyla Drushka. 1. , . Sarah Gille. 2. , Janet Sprintall. 2. . kdrushka@apl.uw.edu. 1. Applied Physics Lab, Univ. of Washington . 2. Scripps Inst. of Oceanography. Aquarius Science Team Meeting. 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. OpenAD. in action - calculating fresh-water impact on North Atlantic with . OpenAD. .. Chris, Jean and Patrick. Adventures with a totally. a. wesome . OpenAD. machine in my basement, investigating whether I can use . 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. Andrea . Santos-Garcia. 1. , . Maria . M. . Jacob. 2. , Linwood Jones. 1. , and William Asher. 3. 1. Central Florida Remote Sensing Lab., University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL. 2. Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales, Argentina. 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.. ‘14. ‘12. ‘98. ‘92. ‘93. ‘91. ‘88. ‘87. ‘86. ‘89. ‘90. ‘96. ‘97. ‘13. ‘20. Deployed in 1988. Salt River Canyon, St. Croix USVI. Timeline of Aquarius. 13 missions conducted 1988-1989. Let’s take a look at some footage!. http://. aquarius.uncw.edu. /about/overview. http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/projects/space/aquarius/2002/september.html. What is Aquarius?. Underwater laboratory. Home to scientists for up to 10 days. 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.