6 January 2015 Presentations from Ocean Salinity Science Workshop now Available. Potential of SMOS to measure SSS with a precision better than 0.2. MIRAS is a new type of instrument that can observe both soil moisture and ocean salinity by imaging emitted microwave radiation at a frequency of around 1.4 GHz. Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) is a satellite which forms part of ESA's Living Planet Programme.It is intended to provide new insights into Earth's water cycle and climate.In addition, it is intended to provide improved weather forecasting and monitoring of snow and ice accumulation. Analysing the 2010-2011 La Niña signature in the tropical Pacific sea surface salinity using in situ data, SMOS observations and a numerical simulation . Soil moisture, ocean salinity, and sea ice have been identified as Essential Climate Variables, with a clear need for long-term data se-ries for such measurements. The scientific objectives of the SMOS mission directly respond to the need for global observations of soil moisture and ocean salinity, two key variables used in predictive hydrological, oceanographic and atmospheric models. Members of our group thus work as two Expert Support Laboratories for ESA level 2 ocean salinity products. The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission, launched in November 2009, is the European Space Agency's (ESA) second Earth Explorer Opportunity mission. In particular, our team is strongly involved in the scientific algorithm development and data exploitation of the ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite mission. The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission provides global maps of soil moisture and ocean salinity. Operated since the end of 2009, the European Space Agency (ESA) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite mission is the first orbiting radiom…
The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission ... instrument would then be an L-band microwave remote sensing sensors as they are able to provide estimates of surface soil moisture and sea surface salinity, on spatial and temporal scales compatible with applications in the fields of climatology, meteorology and large scale hydrology. … SMOS+ Surface Ocean Salinity (SOS) 14 July 2014 SMOS+SOS Brochure Now Available.