Jordi Font

Drastically different sea states result for a growing, decaying, or a fully-developed sea due to the presence of a wind field. In addition, the sea state is altered by the superposition of oceanic currents on the wave field created by the wind. This study presents a numerical analysis of the change in the sea surface brightness temperature at L-band computed using the SSA model and a modified Kitaigorodskii-Pierson-Moskowitz sea surface spectrum to account for the presence of surface water currents. Their impact on the brightness temperature variations is evaluated and compared to the brightness temperature fluctuations observed from a tower-based field experiment. The consequences for salinity retrievals from space using L-band radiometry are discussed

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10.1109/igarss.2004.1370457

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Introduction to the Special Issue on the ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Mission (SMOS)—Instrument Performance and First Results

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (2012)

Yann H. Kerr Jordi Font Manuel Martín‐Neira Susanne Mecklenburg

The introductory overview and 27 papers in this special issue present information on instrument performance and first results of the SMOS mission.

10.1109/tgrs.2012.2191089

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The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Mission - An Overview

IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (2008)

Susanne Mecklenburg Yann H. Kerr Jordi Font A. Hahne

The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission is the European Space Agency's (ESA) second Earth Explorer Opportunity mission. The scientific objectives of the SMOS mission directly respond to the current lack of global observations of soil moisture and ocean salinity, two key variables used in predictive hydrological, oceanographic and atmospheric models. The paper will give an overview on the scientific objectives and the (access to the) available data products.

10.1109/igarss.2008.4779878

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Deep structure of an open sea eddy in the Algerian Basin

Journal of Marine Systems (2002)

Simón Ruíz Jordi Font Mikhail Emelianov Jordi Isern‐Fontanet Claude Millot

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10.1016/s0924-7963(02)00058-1

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<title>Comparison between ERS-1 SAR images and acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) velocity data in the Alboran Sea</title>

Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE (1994)

Bernardo Shirasago E. S. M. Garcia Jordi Font

A study is presented comparing ERS-1 SAR.FDC images and ADCP ship data in detecting mesoscale structures in the Alboran Sea during September - October, 1992. First results have shown good correlation between the shear lines of such dynamic structures in SAR images and the ship data, especially in the case of the ADCP velocity records. The two big western and eastern anticyclonic gyres, small eddies associated to the first gyre and the formation of an along current in the Algerian coast are identified in both data sets. As occur in many cases using SAR images, the wind conditions played on important role in the detection of such structures.

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10.1117/12.197278

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