SMOS

Description

The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity

Platform Type
Low Earth Orbit Satellite (LEO)
Instruments
Organizations
ESA
Orbital Altitude
763 km
Orbital Inclination
98.42 degrees

Sea Surface Salinity - Near Real Time - MIRAS SMOS

Product Families
Sea Surface Salinity
Summary

CoastWatch/OceanWatch produces 0.25-degree longitude/latitude Level-3 gridded sea-surface salinity (SSS) daily and 3-day mean datasets by box averaging European Space Agency (ESA) Soil Moisture – Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission’s Microwave Imaging Radiometer with Aperture Synthesis (MIRAS) satellite observations over the global ocean.