Aquarius: Status and recent results

Vine, David M. Le; Dinnat, Emmanuel P.; Lagerloef, Gary; Matthaeis, Paolo de; Abraham, Saji; Utku, C.; Kao, Hsun-Ying

doi:10.1002/2014rs005505

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“…The SSS analysis relies on Argo data downloaded in January 2017, with annual maps generated following Johnson and Lyman (2012) as well as monthly maps of bulk (as opposed to skin) SSS data from BASS (Xie et al 2014). BASS blends in situ SSS data with data from the Aquarius (Le Vine et al 2014; mission ended in June 2015) and SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity; Font et al 2013) satellite missions. BASS maps can be biased fresh around land (including islands) and should be compared carefully with in situ data-based maps at high latitudes before trusting features there.…”

Section: Cont Sidebar 31: Changes In the Northeast Us Shelf Ecosymentioning

confidence: 99%

State of the Climate in 2016

Aaron-Morrison¹,

Ackerman²,

Adams³

et al. 2017

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

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Section: Cont Sidebar 31: Changes In the Northeast Us Shelf Ecosymentioning

confidence: 99%

State of the Climate in 2016

Aaron-Morrison¹,

Ackerman²,

Adams³

et al. 2017

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

154

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“…The Aquarius radiometers performed remarkably close to predictions based on the forward model assembled to predict the expected antenna temperatures [5]. The forward model was used to adjust biases in the antenna temperatures and in September, 2011 about one month after the instrument was turned on, the first Aquarius map of sea surface salinity was released ( Figure 5).…”

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Aquarius: The instrument and initial results

Vine

Lagerloef

Ruf

et al. 2012

2012 12th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment (MicroRad)

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Aquarius was launched on June 10,2011 aboard the Aquarius/SAC-D observatory and the instrument has been operating continuously since the initial turned-on was completed on August 25. The initial observed antenna temperatures were close to predicted and the first salinity map was released in September. In order to map the ocean salinity field, Aquarius includes several special features such as the inclusion of a scatterometer to provide a roughness correction, measurement of the third Stokes parameter to correct for Faraday rotation, and fast sampling to mitigate the effects of RFI. This paper provides an overview of the instrument and an example of initial results. Details are covered in subsequent papers in the session on Aquarius.

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“…Hence, the estimates presented here could change after all data have been subjected to scientific quality control. The SSS analysis relies on Argo in situ data downloaded in January 2016, with annual maps generated following Johnson and Lyman (2012) as well as monthly maps from BASS (Xie et al 2014), a bulk (as opposed to skin) SSS data product that blends in situ SSS data with data from the Aquarius (Le Vine et al 2014) and SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity; Font et al 2013) satellite missions. The Aquarius mission ended in June 2015, leaving SMOS as the sole source for satellite SSS for the rest of 2015.…”

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Central America and the Caribbean

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2021

Global Report on Trafficking in Persons

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Plate 2 .1. (a) ER A-Interim lower stratospheric temperature; (b) ERA-Interim lower tropospheric temperature; (c) NOAA/NCEI surface temperature (contoured) and lake temperatures (circles); (d) GHCNDEX warm day threshold exceedance (TX90p); (e) GHCNDEX cool day threshold exceedance (TX10p); (f) ESA CCI soil moisture; (g) GRACE 2015 difference from 2014 water storage; (h) GPCP precipitation; (i) ELSE system runoff; (j) ELSE system river discharge; (k) HadISDH (land) and NOCSv2.0 (ocean) surface specific humidity; (l) ERA-Interim surface relative humidity; (m) PATMOS-x cloudiness; (n) HIRS upper tropospheric humidity; (o) Microwave radiometer retrievals (ocean), COSMIC GPS-RO data (land), and GNSS (circles, land) total column water vapor; (p) sc-PDSI drought annual average 2015 anomaly; (q) GOME-2 (using GOME, SCIAMACHY, and GOME-2 for the climatology) stratospheric (total column) ozone; (r) ERA-Interim 850-hPa wind speed; (s) ERA-Interim (worldwide grids) and HadISD (points) surface wind speed; (t) HadSLP2r sea level pressure; (u) Tropospheric ozone; (v) CAMS total aerosol optical depth; (w) CAMS aerosol optical depth from dust; (x) CAMS aerosol optical depth from biomass burning; (y) SeaWiFS/MERIS/MODIS fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (FAPAR); (z) Surface visible-light albedo from MODIS White Sky broadband; (aa) Surface near-infrared albedo from MODIS White Sky broadband; (ab) GFASv1.3 carbonaceous emissions from biomass burning; (ac) CAMS total column CO anomalies. AUGUST 2016 STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2015 | S11 Unauthenticated | Downloaded 09/13/21 01:56 AM UTC table 2.1. Temperature anomalies (°C) and uncertainties (where available) for 2015 (base period: 1981-2010). The uncertainties indicate the scope of the range around the central value. For ERA-Interim, the values shown are the analyzed 2-m temperature anomalies (uncorrected). Note that the land values computed for HadCRUT4 used the CRUTEM.4.4.0.0 dataset (Jones et al. 2012), the ocean values were computed using the HadSST.3.1.1.0 dataset (Kennedy et al. 2011a, 2011b), and the global land and ocean values used the HadCRUT4.4.0.0 dataset. Uncertainty ranges are represented in terms of a 95% confidence interval, with the exception of JMA which has a 90% confidence interval. GlobalNASA-GISS HadCRUT4 NOAA-

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Aquarius: Status and recent results

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Aquarius: The instrument and initial results

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