Abstract: Global satellite sea-surface salinity (SSS) observations are now a reality; consequently, the influences of SSS on operational microwave radiometry need to be considered. At the same time, the in-progress transition of operational agencies from salinity-independent radiative transfer modeling (RTM) to a salinity-dependent RTM exposes non-negligible sources of error and uncertainty in past operational passive microwave retrievals; consequently, the impact of improved modeling of SSS influences on ocean surface permittivity, as a principal compon...
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Remote sensing
Meteorology