Articles | Volume 17, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-17-1437-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-17-1437-2021
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22 Oct 2021
Research article |  | 22 Oct 2021

Sea surface salinity short-term variability in the tropics

Frederick M. Bingham and Susannah Brodnitz

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Satellite measurements of sea surface salinity (SSS) are compared with measurements in the ocean to verify the quality of the satellite data. SSS satellites measure average values over a footprint with size of ~100 km, whereas ocean values are usually taken at a single point in space and time. Using SSS data from a network of buoys across the global tropics, we estimate the size of the mismatch between satellite and in situ measurements to better understand the error structure of the satellite.