Mediterranean and Black Sea fisheries feature a great variety of target species, vessels and fishing gears and play an important socioeconomic role in the whole region. The mandate of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) is to ensure the sustainability of fisheries activities through the adoption of adequate management measures. The assessment of the size and state of the stocks exploited by fisheries is one of the pillars of modern management. The GFCM as the responsible Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMO) of the Mediterranean and Black Sea has established permanent working groups on dermersal and small pelagic fish species where fisheries scientists perform their analysis and provide the best scientific advice to better manage fisheries and fish stocks. The groups, in cooperation with regional programs under the Regional Sea Conventions, set standards and guidelines for the collection, transmission and analysis of these data.

This product contains average 10 days & monthly salinity field based on L2P products, ascending and descending orbits being processed separately. ** This product is no longer available, see below **

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 an intermediate product, that provides, in daily files, SSS with qualification flags (associated confidence classes) which allow selecting valid data before averaging. Ascending and descending orbits are processed separately ** This product is no longer available, see below **

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.

This product contains weekly salinity field, based on SMOS satellite data, and ISAS (In-Situ Analysis System).

This product contains weekly salinity field, based on SMOS satellite data, and ISAS (In-Situ Analysis System). The L4OS SMOS-OI product contains global Level 4 analyses of the of the Sea Surface Salinity (SSS), Sea Surface Density (SSD) and Sea Surface Spiciness (SSSp), along with Sea Surface Absolute Salinity (SSA), Conservative Temperature (SCT), surface thermal expansion coefficient (alpha) and haline contraction coefficient (beta). The SSS product is obtained using an optimal interpolation (OI) algorithm, that combines ISAS in situ SSS OI analyses and Soil Moisture Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite image to reduce large scale and temporally varying bias. The SSS L4 product outcome is then combined with satellite SST products to compute thermodynamic sea water parameters using TEOS-10 (Kolodziejczyk et al., 2021). Products from reprocessing RE07 are available for the period 01/2011 - 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. 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).

This product is an intermediate product, that provides, in daily files, SSS corrected from land-sea contamination and latitudinal bias. Ascending and descending orbits are processed separately

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 is an aggregation of daily maps of dielectric constant and its associated parameters over a 3 day moving window. The whole Earth's surface is covered in this 3-day product. Ascending and descending orbits are processed separately.