This product contains daily salinity fields from a 9 days temporal gaussian average, corrected from land-sea contamination and latitudinal bias, based on L2Q products, mixing ascending and descending orbits.

-- Warning, deliverable only available in French -- Deliverable D02.03 of the FEM PHYSIC 2015 project Lot 2: Definition of the data acquisition strategy Task 1: Synthesis of knowledge

-- Warning, deliverable only available in French -- Delivrable D02.05 of the FEM PHYSIC 2015 project WP 2: Definition of the data acquisition strategy Task 2: Choice of measuring instruments

-- Warning, deliverable only available in French -- Delivrable D02.05 of the FEM PHYSIC 2015 project WP 2: Definition of the data acquisition strategy Task 2: Choice of measuring instruments

This product is a synthesis product of brightness temperatures for L-Band frequency. It includes all brightness temperatures acquired that very day by the SMOS satellite operating in full pol mode. Values correspond to those at the top of the atmosphere level, transformed to the ground polarisation reference frame, binned and averaged into fixed incidence angle classes. This product is available on each of the EASE2 grid projections (cylindrical and polar).

-- Warning, deliverable only available in French -- Delivrable D02.05 of the FEM PHYSIC 2015 project WP 2: Definition of the data acquisition strategy Task 2: Choice of measuring instruments

This product is the daily product of soil moisture. The retrievals are based on a multi-orbit retrieval algorithm. Ascending and descending orbits are processed separately.

This product is radio frequency interference (RFI) probability for each angle bin computed daily and based on a monthly moving window average. Ascending and descending orbits are processed separately, and only in full polarization. ** This product is no longer available, see below **

This product is the daily product of soil moisture, and contains filtered data. The retrievals are based on a multi-orbit retrieval algorithm. A detection of freeze and snow is performed and added to the flags. Ascending and descending orbits are processed separately.

This product contains daily salinity fields from a 9 days temporal gaussian average, corrected from land-sea contamination and latitudinal bias, based on L2Q products, mixing ascending and descending orbits. The base products, for all the CATDS-PDC (Centre Aval de Traitement des Données SMOS - Production & Dissemination Center) processing chains, are the SMOS L1B products from ESA (European Space Agency). From these, brightness temperatures at various incidence angles are reconstructed. The Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) are retrieved from multi-angular brightness temperatures through a maximum likehood Bayesian approach in which measured Tb and Tb simulated using a forward direct model are compared (see Zine et al. 2008 for a general description of the retrieval method, and pro_con table for a summary of the similarities/differences with respect to ESA level 2 ocean salinity processing). Products from reprocessing RE07 are available for the period 02/2010 - 05/2021. Products from operational (OPER) processing are available since 06/2021. Reprocessed products and operational products are derived using the same algorithm and configuration, hence ensuring the temporal continuity.