Abstract The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission, launched in November
2009, is the European Space Agency's (ESA) second Earth Explorer Opportunity mission …

The monitoring of soil moisture and sea surface salinity over the Earth has been profoundly
enhanced during the last thirteen years due to a new generation of satellite sensors. L-band …

Abstract The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite (SMOS) was launched in November
2009 and started delivering data in January 2010. The commissioning phase ended in May …

Since 2009, three low frequency microwave sensors have been launched into space with
the capability of global monitoring of sea surface salinity (SSS). The European Space …

Abstract The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission has provided a unique
remote sensing capability for observing key variables of the hydrological cycle, such as the …

Satellite measurements have largely improved sea surface salinity (SSS) observations in the
recent decade, including Soil Moisture Ocean Salinity (SMOS), Aquarius/Satélite de …

After more than 10 years in orbit, the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) European
mission is still a unique, highquality instrument for providing Soil Moisture over land and Sea …

This paper aims to present and assess the quality of seven years (2011–2017) of 25 km nine-
day Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) objectively …

Earlier studies have pointed out systematic differences between sea surface salinity
retrieved from L-band radiometric measurements and measured in situ, which depend on …

Abstract The Soil Moisture Ocean Salinity (SMOS) was the first mission providing L-band
multi-angular brightness temperature (TB) at the global scale. However, radio frequency …