PPT-The North Atlantic Subtropical Surface Salinity Maximum as Observed by Aquarius

Frederick Bingham UNC Wilmington Collaborators Julius Busecke Arnold Gordon and Claudia Giulivi LDEO Zhijin Li JPL Also thanks to J DAddezio Work funded by NASA Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans doi1010022014JC009825. 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. isotopologues. . Guillaume Leduc . (CEREGE, France). Julian Sachs . (. University. of Washington, USA). Orest. . Kawka. . (. University. of Washington, USA. ). Ralph Schneider . (. University. of . 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 Formation and variability of North Atlantic sea surface salinity maximum in a global GCM. Tangdong. . Qu. International Pacific Research Center, SOEST, University of Hawaii. (. August. . 2. , 2010). 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.. Ocean . O. bservations . in. Support . of. Sea . S. urface Salinity . P. rocess . S. tudies.  . Gustavo Jorge Goni. Gustavo.Goni@noaa.gov. National Oceanic and Atmospheric . Administration (NOAA), . 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 . 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. . Introductive Physical Oceanography. This powerpoint was prepared for purposes of this lecture and course only. It contains graphics from copyrighted books and journals. Please do not use without acknowledgment of these sources.. 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.. 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://.