Articles | Volume 11, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-11-695-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-11-695-2015
Technical note
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07 Sep 2015
Technical note |  | 07 Sep 2015

Technical Note: Remote sensing of sea surface salinity using the propagation of low-frequency navigation signals

I. Astin and Y. Feng

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This paper introduces a potential method for determining the salinity of the ocean surface from long-wave radio signals used for navigation (and potentially other AM radio transmissions). Here we seek to retrieve ocean surface salinity averaged along a path across the North Sea between Denmark and the UK and compare our results with satellite-derived salinity.