TY - GEN
T1 - Negative impacts of rainfall on Aquarius Sea Surface Salinity measurements
AU - Aslebagh, Shadi
AU - Jones, W. Linwood
AU - Ebrahimi, Hamideh
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The remote sensing of Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) by the Aquarius L-band radiometer is a very challenging task. This paper describes one particular challenge, namely to remove the effects of rain contamination on the measurement of ocean surface brightness temperature. Instantaneously, rain drops striking the ocean increases the surface roughness that raises the ocean surface brightness temperature and that results in a corresponding reduction of the retrieved SSS. Moreover, over time periods of hours, rain accumulation can produce a fresh water lens that modifies the ocean brightness, which also affects the retrieved ocean salinity. This paper investigates these negative effects of instantaneous and accumulated rainfall on Aquarius SSS measurement.
AB - The remote sensing of Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) by the Aquarius L-band radiometer is a very challenging task. This paper describes one particular challenge, namely to remove the effects of rain contamination on the measurement of ocean surface brightness temperature. Instantaneously, rain drops striking the ocean increases the surface roughness that raises the ocean surface brightness temperature and that results in a corresponding reduction of the retrieved SSS. Moreover, over time periods of hours, rain accumulation can produce a fresh water lens that modifies the ocean brightness, which also affects the retrieved ocean salinity. This paper investigates these negative effects of instantaneous and accumulated rainfall on Aquarius SSS measurement.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84894150462
U2 - 10.1109/APS.2013.6711072
DO - 10.1109/APS.2013.6711072
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84894150462
SN - 9781467353175
T3 - IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, AP-S International Symposium (Digest)
SP - 826
EP - 827
BT - 2013 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, APSURSI 2013 - Proceedings
T2 - 2013 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, APSURSI 2013
Y2 - 7 July 2013 through 13 July 2013
ER -