PPT-Using Argo in situ and Aquarius version 3.0 sea surface salinity,

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 . D. Vandemark, H. . Feng. Univ. of New Hampshire/EOS. N. . Reul. , F. . . Ardhuin. , B. . Chapron. . IFREMER/Centre de Brest. within . Aq. Cal/Val team efforts. OSST Meeting 2012. 2. OSST 2012. Overview. B. Owens, D. . Roemmich. , S. Riser, G. Johnson, S. . Garzol. Ocean Climate Observation Annual System Review. Silver Spring October 27-29, 2010. The status of Argo . 440,000 . high quality T,S profiles have been collected during 2004-. 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, . in . the . southern . Makassar Strait since 1938 C.E. and . its . influence . on. . the . Indonesian . Throughflow. Braddock K. Linsley. , Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA [. 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 Update on SPURS-2 (‘Fresh SPURS’) and SPURS-1 synthesis. Update from Dr. Eric Lindstrom. SPURS main question: What . is controlling the upper ocean . salinity?. Will . be addressed with interagency and international collaboration using measurements from satellites, ships, drifters, floats, gliders, AUVs and modeling.. 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 . J. Boutin. 1. , N. Martin. 1. , G. Reverdin. 1. ,S. Morisset. 1. , X. Yin. 1. , L. Centurioni. 2 . and N. Reul. 3. . 1. LOCEAN, Sorbone Universités, UPMC/CNRS/IRD/MNHN, Paris, France. 2. SIO, La Jolla, CA, USA. Indicators. (. Core. Argo). Category. Indicator. Method. Target. Note. STATUS. Activity. 108%. Nb Active. . units. vs . target. 3200. 3473/3918. Intensity. 89%. Nb . Deployed. over last 12 . months. Frederick Bingham. UNC Wilmington. Collaborators: Julius . Busecke. ,. Arnold Gordon and Claudia . Giulivi. (LDEO), . Zhijin. Li (JPL). Also thanks to J. . D’Addezio. !. Work funded by NASA. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans doi:10.1002/2014JC009825. 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. 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.. Generally, salinity is defined as the ‘the total amount of solid material in grains contained in one kilogram of sea water and is expressed as part per thousands (%o) . e.g. . 30%o (means 30 grams of salt in 1000 grams of sea water). .