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
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;
Conference_Titel :
IEEE MicroRad, 2006
Conference_Location :
SanJuan
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9417-8
DOI :
10.1109/MICRAD.2006.1677068
