PPT-The Aquarius Salinity Retrieval

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 AquariusSACD Science Meeting. 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. NADYA T. VINOGRADOVA. 1. RUI M. PONTE. 1. MARTHA W. BUCKLEY. 2. 1. Atmospheric . and Environmental Research (AER. ), USA. 2. George Mason University (GMU), USA . Aquarius/SAC-D Science Team Meeting, Seattle, WA. 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. 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. 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 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 . 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. 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.. 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://.