Nicolás Reul

Satellite Microwave Radiometry at L-Band for Monitoring Earth’s Essential Climate Variables: From Fundamental Physics to Sixteen Years of Global Climate Observations and Beyond

Yiwen Zhou, Mike Schwank, Jacqueline Boutin, Philippe Richaume et autres

L-band satellite radiometry has emerged as an important tool for monitoring Earth’s essential climate variables (ECVs). It relies on spaceborne radiometers operating in a protected band (1.4–1.427 GHz) to measure Earth’s surface thermal microwave emission in brightness temperatures. Observations at this band …

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The Bright Decade of Ocean Salinity from Space

Roberto Sabia, Jacqueline Boutin, Nicolás Reul, Tong Lee et autres

Sea Surface Salinity is a crucial climatic variable due to its twofold role as both a passive and an active tracer of oceanic processes. Despite its relevance, however, it could not be measured from space, mainly because of technological limitations, until 2009. …

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Error characterization of satellite and synergistic sea-surface wind products under tropical cyclone conditions

Federico Cossu, Evgeniia Makarova, Albert S. Rabaneda, Marcos Portabella et autres

ESA Living Planet Symposium 2025, From Observation to Climate Action and Sustainability for Earth, 23-27 June 2025, Vienna, Austria.-- 1 page, 3 figures, 3 tables

SMOS satellite monitors Sea Surface Salinity for more than 15 years

Jacqueline Boutin, Nicolás Reul, Gaël Alory, Nicolas Kolodziejczyk et autres

The monitoring of Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) over the Earth has been profoundly enhanced during the last fifteen years due to a new generation of satellite sensors. L-band radiometry is currently the only technology to measure SSS from space. The European Soil …

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SMOS Sea Surface Salinity retrieval after 15 years of mission

Estrella Olmedo, Antonio Turiel, Verónica González‐Gambau, Aina García-Espriu et autres

In November 2009, the first L-band interferometric radiometer was launched as the second Earth Explorer mission by the European Space Agency (ESA), with the primary goal of measuring soil moisture over land and sea surface salinity over the oceans. After more than …

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Improving extreme wind observation capabilities from satellites

Federico Cossu, Evgeniia Makarova, Albert S. Rabaneda, Marcos Portabella et autres

XIII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Climatología, Cambio Climático y Sociedad: de la Ciencia Básica a los Servicios Climáticos, 22-24 January 2025, San Lorenzo de el Escorial.-- 1 page

ESA Sea Surface Salinity Climate Change Initiative (Sea_Surface_Salinity_cci): Weekly and monthly sea surface salinity products from L-band, v5.5

Jacqueline Boutin, Jean‐Luc Vergely, Nicolás Reul, Rafael Catany et autres

The European Space Agency (ESA) Sea Surface Salinity Climate Change Initiative (CCI) consortium has produced global, level 4, multi-sensor Sea Surface Salinity maps covering the 2010-2023 period. This dataset collection contains Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) v5.5 data at a spatial resolution of …

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Summer Chukchi Sea Near-Surface Salinity Variability in Satellite Observations and Ocean Models

Semyon A. Grodsky, Nicolás Reul, Doug Vandemark

The Chukchi Sea is an open estuary in the southwestern Arctic. Its near-surface salinities are higher than those of the surrounding open Arctic waters due to the key inflow of saltier and warmer Pacific waters through the Bering Strait. This salinity distribution …

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Error Characterization of In Situ, Satellite, and Synergistic Sea Surface Wind Products Under Tropical Cyclone Conditions

Federico Cossu, Elena Makarova, Alberto Rabaneda, Marcos Portabella et autres

In the framework of the MAXSS project, a multi-mission (MM) wind product under tropical cyclone conditions has been generated for the period 2010-2020, i.e., a synergistic product that combines the European Center for Medium-range Weather Forecast fifth reanalysis (ERA5) output with several …

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Sea Surface Salinity in the Arctic Ocean - Results from the NASA SASSIE Field Campaign, Calibration-Validation of Satellite Observations, and Data Outreach

Julian Schanze, Peter Gaube, Jessica Anderson, Frederick M. Bingham et autres

The National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge (SASSIE) field campaign took place in the Arctic Ocean between August and October of 2022. The scientific aim is to understand the relationship between both haline and …

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Advancing Sea Surface Salinity R&D: The Pi-MEP Initiative for Satellite Salinity Data Validation and Exploitation

Sébastien Guimbard, Nicolás Reul, Roberto Sabia, Raúl Díez-García et autres

The Pilot-Mission Exploitation Platform (Pi-MEP) for salinity (https://www.salinity-pimep.org/) is an initiative originally meant to support and widen the uptake of ESA Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission data over the ocean. Since its beginning in 2017, the project aims at setting …

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Soil Moisture and Sea Surface Salinity Derived from Satellite-Borne Sensors

Jacqueline Boutin, Simon Yueh, Rajat Bindlish, S. Chan et autres

Abstract The monitoring of soil moisture and sea surface salinity over the Earth has been profoundly enhanced during the last thirteen years due to a new generation of satellite sensors. L-band radiometry is currently the only technology providing direct measurements of soil …

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