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Título: | Fresh Water River discharges as observed by SMOS in the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal |
Autor: | Olmedo, Estrella CSIC ORCID ; Ballabrera-Poy, Joaquim CSIC ORCID ; Turiel, Antonio CSIC ORCID | Fecha de publicación: | abr-2017 | Editor: | European Geosciences Union | Citación: | Geophysical Research Abstracts 19: EGU2017-8086 (2017) | Resumen: | The Bay of Bengal (BoB) and the Arabian Sea (AS) are two peculiar regions in the Indian Ocean exhibiting a wide range of Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) values. In the BoB, the strong summer monsoon rainfall and the continental run-offs into these semi-enclosed basins result in an intense dilution of the surface seawater in the northern part of the Bay, thereby inducing some of the lowest SSS water masses found in the tropical belt. In the AS, because of the intense variability associated with the monsoon cycle, water mass structure in the upper layers of the AS shows enormous variability in the space and time. As such, the role of the salinity in these regions is crucial in the ocean dynamics of these regions. After more than 7 years in orbit, the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission [1] continues to provide a series of salinity data that could be used to monitor the SSS variations in these climatically relevant regions, provided that systematic errors due to land contamination are reduced. Recently-developed algorithms for SSS retrieval [2] have improved the filtering criteria and the mitigation of the systematic bias, providing coherent SSS retrievals close to the land masses. In this work we have analyzed the SSS in 2-degree boxes located at the mouth of the main rivers in the BoB: Ganges-Brahmaputra, Irrawady, Mahanadi, Godovari; and in the AS: Indus. We have first tried to validate the SMOS salinity retrievals with in situ measurements. Since there is few available in situ data, we have also compared the climatological SSS behavior derived from SMOS with the ones provided by the World Ocean Atlas[3]. We have also compared the SMOS SSS data with historical data of discharges [4] and [5], ocean currents from the Ocean Surface Current Analyses Real-time (OSCAR) [6], Sea Surface Temperature from Operational Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice Analysis (OSTIA) [7],[8] and [9] and Chlorophyll data [10].The conclusion of this work is that, when the proper filtering criteria is implemented, SMOS provides coherent SSS measurements close to the coast, and especially in these regions of the Indian Ocean, providing near real-time information suitable for validation and ocean data assimilation | Descripción: | European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2017, 23-28 April 2017, Vienna, Austria.-- 1 page | Versión del editor: | https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2017/posters/24341 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/177005 | Identificadores: | issn: 1607-7962 |
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