DocumentCode
2401803
Title
Aquarius: A Mission to Monitor Sea Surface Salinity from Space
Author
Le Vine, D.M. ; Pellerano, F. ; Lagerloef, G.S.E. ; Yueh, S. ; Colomb, R.
Author_Institution
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
fYear
2006
fDate
2006
Firstpage
87
Lastpage
90
Abstract
Aquarius is a combination passive/active L-band microwave instrument being developed to map the surface salinity field of the oceans from space. It is part of the Aquarius/SAC-D mission, a partnership between the USA (NASA) and Argentina (CONAE) with launch scheduled for early in 2009. 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
Keywords
microwave spectrometers; oceanographic equipment; radiometers; remote sensing; seawater; Aquarius/SAC-D mission; passive/active L-band microwave instrument; radiometer/spectrometer instrument; sea surface salinity field interannual variation; sea surface salinity field seasonal variation; Instruments; L-band; Large-scale systems; Monitoring; NASA; Oceans; Sea surface; Sea surface salinity; Space missions; Spatial resolution;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
IEEE MicroRad, 2006
Conference_Location
SanJuan
Print_ISBN
0-7803-9417-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/MICRAD.2006.1677068
Filename
1677068
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