Abstract: Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) was chosen as the European Space Agency?s second Earth Explorer Opportunity mission. One of the objectives is to retrieve sea surface salinity (SSS) from measured brightness temperatures ...

Abstract: The timeliness of satellite altimeter measurements has a significant effect on their value for operational oceanography. In this paper, an Observing System Experiment (OSE) approach is used to assess the quality of real-time ...