Evaluation of Arctic Ocean surface salinities from the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission against a regional reanalysis and in situ data

Xie, Jiping; Raj, Roshin P.; Bertino, Laurent; Samuelsen, Annette; Wakamatsu, Tsuyoshi

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-1191-2019

Articles | Volume 15, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-1191-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-1191-2019

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06 Sep 2019

Research article |

| 06 Sep 2019

Evaluation of Arctic Ocean surface salinities from the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission against a regional reanalysis and in situ data

Jiping Xie, Roshin P. Raj, Laurent Bertino, Annette Samuelsen, and Tsuyoshi Wakamatsu

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RC1: 'Review of paper', Anonymous Referee #1, 12 Feb 2019
- AC1: 'Response to the comments from the anonymous Referee #1', Jiping Xie, 12 Apr 2019
RC2: 'interactive comment on "Evaluation of Arctic Ocean surface salinities from SMOS and two CMEMS reanalyses against in-situ datasets"', Anonymous Referee #2, 07 Mar 2019
- AC2: 'Response to the comments from the anonymous Referee #2', Jiping Xie, 12 Apr 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Jiping Xie on behalf of the Authors (14 Jun 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (18 Jun 2019) by Ananda Pascual

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (25 Jun 2019)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (19 Jul 2019)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (01 Aug 2019) by Ananda Pascual

AR by Jiping Xie on behalf of the Authors (13 Aug 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (14 Aug 2019) by Ananda Pascual

AR by Jiping Xie on behalf of the Authors (16 Aug 2019)

Short summary

Two gridded sea surface salinity (SSS) products have been derived from the European Space Agency’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission. The uncertainties of these two products in the Arctic are quantified against two SSS products in the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Services, two climatologies, and other in situ data. The results compared with independent in situ data clearly show a common challenge for the six SSS products to represent central Arctic freshwater masses (<24 psu).