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Baltic+ L4 SSS product v1.0

This dataset is the first dedicated SMOS Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) product for the Baltic basin to enhance the science capabilities in the Baltic region and help to fill the gaps and grand challenges identified by the scientific community. These new product has been created under the funded ESA project ITT Baltic+ Salinity dynamics (4000126102/18/I-BG).

This basin is one of the most challenging regions for the satellite SSS retrieval. The available EO-based SSS products are quite limited in terms of spatio-temporal coverage and quality. This is mainly due to technical limitations that strongly affect the brightness temperatures (TB), such as the high contamination by interferences and the contamination close to land and ice edges. Moreover, the sensitivity of TB to SSS changes is very low and dielectric models present limitations in this low salinity regime.

Baltic+ L4 SSS product comprises 9 years (2011-2019) of daily maps at 0.05 degrees. A detailed explanation of the product algorithms and validation can be found at http://bec.icm.csic.es/doc/BEC_PD_SSS_Baltic_L3_L4.pdf and in the publication: Gonzalez-Gambau et al., “First SMOS Sea Surface Salinity dedicated products over the Baltic Sea“, Earth System Science Data, 2021

We present here the seasonal averaged Baltic+ L4 SSS products for the period 2011-2019.

The daily Baltic+ L4 SSS products can be downloaded from the BEC FTP service (s ftp://becftp.icm.csic.es) in the directory OCEAN/SSS/SMOS/Baltic/v1.0/L4/daily/

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Date (Publication)
2021-09-30
Unique resource identifier
https://metadata.helcom.fi/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/9d979033-1136-4dd1-a09b-7ee9e512ad14
pointOfContact
  HELCOM Secretariat

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Oceanographic geographical features

GEMET

  • physical environment

  • water salinity

  • oceanography

  • sea

  • ocean

  • sea water

Temporal
  • MADS

  • SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) mission

  • Sea Surface Salinity

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Use constraints: If this data is used for publication, the following acknowledgment should be included: Baltic salinity data (DOI 10.20350/digitalCSIC/13860) were produced by the Barcelona Expert Center ( http://bec.icm.csic.es/) and their production was funded by ESA under project Baltic+ Salinity (contract 4000126102/18/I-BG)

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Access constraints: No limitations on public access.
Spatial representation type
Grid
Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Oceans
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Begin date
2011-02-01
End date
2019-12-31
Unique resource identifier
EPSG:3035
Distribution format
  • TIFF ( )

OnLine resource
Open in Map Viewer ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
Download dataset ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
Daily Baltic+ L4 SSS products can be downloaded from the BEC FTP service ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

The daily Baltic+ L4 SSS products can be downloaded from the BEC FTP service (s ftp://becftp.icm.csic.es) in the directory OCEAN/SSS/SMOS/Baltic/v1.0/L4/daily/ . Instructions to access the service can be found at http://bec.icm.csic.es/bec-ftp-service/

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Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement

This product has been generated from the raw measurements provided by the SMOS mission. The SMOS SSS has been merged with ESA CCI /OSTIA SST. The SSS retrieval algorithm included improvements at different processing levels from level 0 to level 4. The detailed algorithms can be found at http://bec.icm.csic.es/doc/BEC_PD_SSS_Baltic_L3_L4.pdf and in the publication: Gonzalez-Gambau et al., “First SMOS Sea Surface Salinity dedicated products over the Baltic Sea“, Earth System Science Data, 2021.

File identifier
9d979033-1136-4dd1-a09b-7ee9e512ad14 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2021-11-10T09:32:39
pointOfContact
  Barcelona Expert Center
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Keywords

GEMET
ocean oceanography physical environment sea sea water water salinity
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Oceanographic geographical features

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