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Aquarius: An Instrument to Monitor Sea Surface Salinity from SpaceAquarius is a combined passive/active L-band microwave instrument that is being developed to map the salinity field at the surface of the ocean from space. The data will support studies of the coupling between ocean circulation, global water cycle, and climate. Aquarius is part of the Aquarius/SAC-D mission, which is a partnership between the U.S. (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and Argentina (CONAE). The primary science objective of this mission is to monitor the seasonal and interannual variation of the large-scale features of the surface salinity field in the open ocean with a spatial resolution of 150 km and a retrieval accuracy of 0.2 psu globally on a monthly basis.
Document ID
20110013177
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
External Source(s)
Authors
LeVine, D. M.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Lagerloef, G. S .E.
(Earth and Space Research Seattle, WA, United States)
Colomb, R.
(National Commission of Space Activities Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Yueh, S.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Pellerano, F.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
August 25, 2013
Publication Date
July 1, 2007
Publication Information
Publication: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Volume: 45
Issue: 7
ISSN: 0196-2892
Subject Category
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
scatterometer
Microwave radiometry
sensing
microwave remote
polarimetric
ocean salinity

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