Sea surface salinity from space: new tools for the ocean color community Joe Salisbury, Doug Vandemark, Chris Hunt, Janet Campbell, Dominic Wisser, Tim.

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Sea surface salinity from space: new tools for the ocean color community Joe Salisbury, Doug Vandemark, Chris Hunt, Janet Campbell, Dominic Wisser, Tim Moore (UNH) Nico Reul, Bertrand Chapron (IFREMR)

Aquarius and SMOS AMSR-E: the first SSS product from space Preliminary biogeochemical studies using remotely-sensed SSS and ocean color Can the ocean color community help the SSS community? Outline:

Importance: From the NASA Aquarius website: - Salinity has been sparsely detected at sea, limited mostly to summertime observations in shipping lanes: about 25% of the grid over ice-free oceans have never been sampled - Aquarius will collect more data in two months than had been amassed by ships and in-water sensors during the 100 years before launch

NODC WOA-09 Atlas. Antonov et al., 2010

The data-related goals of Aquarius are: 1.Provide the first global observations of SSS, covering Earth's surface once every 7 days 2. Deliver monthly 150-kilometer resolution SSS maps over a 3-year mission lifetime 3. Achieve SSS accuracy of 0.2 psu

SSS retrievals from EOS AMSR-E “Demonstration of ocean surface salinity microwave measurements from space using AMSR-E data over the Amazon plume” N. Reul, et al. (2009) Geophysical Research Letters. V. 36, L13607, doi: /2009GL038860

Nevertheless: we found a robust salinity in tropical waters (SST>26C), using  T B= Sensitivity of T b to several ocean and atmospheric variables

AMSR-E used to generate monthly SSS maps ( ) (0.25 degree from ~56km original data)

ARGO TSG 0.25° res PIRATA AMSR-E SSS product validation: match-up with in situ data compiled monthly ( ) Drifters

Rms<1.5 psu reportedPresent rms ~0.7 psu

Preliminary studies using AMSR-E SSS and ocean color data

Merged SeaWiFS-MODIS GSM log(acdm 443 )

Focus on the western tropical Atlantic with SSS and ocean color: Manuscript: “Spatial and temporal coherence between Amazon discharge, salinity and light absorption by colored organic carbon in the surface western tropical Atlantic.”

Comparison of seasonal climatologies ( )

Time series of ocean color and salinity along plume trajectories Analysis locations based on segments of low salinity plume trajectory (proximal: 0-600km, distal: km)

Monthly time-series of discharge, AMSR-E SSS, and acdm 443 along the plume trajectory from the km

Can we use AMSR-E SSS and ocean color data to further our knowledge of ocean biogeochemistry? Preliminary study of acdm anomalies along the Amazon plume trajectory

-For each month in the time series, we considered a conservative relationship between salinity and acdm 443. (Only along the low-salinity trajectory of the plume) -Plotted salinity versus the anomaly of the SSS - acdm 443 relationship -Analyzed the anomalies in terms of distance from Amazon mouth and ocean color variables.

Evidence for acdm photobleaching? Salinity, residuals of linear regressions, distance from source Evidence for “autotrophic” subsidies of acdm?

RESULT: A NEW SSS PRODUCT with rms < 1 psu in tropical waters to complement SMOS & AQUARIUS (and go back to 2002) AMSR-E data available now for evaluating: Spatial SSS structure Temporal SSS signatures over a 8 year period Blending of satellite products using ocean color, AMSR-E, Aquarius, SMOS, SST Land-ocean interaction studies near tropical river plume regions and open ocean rain pools

Can ocean color help the SSS community? The grid is the approximate resolution of monthly Aquarius data (150km),..and the buffer is about 2 pixels (300km)

salinity Intermediate steps: AMSR-E can help resolve within-pixel variability in warm waters

salinity Intermediate steps: AMSR-E can also get closer to the coast

Merged product: AMSR SSS (left) and SSS <34 estimated from acdm 443 (right)

Create global AMSR-E SSS product for >26C (Indian Ocean underway!) Characterize regional variability in relationships between salinity and absorption Study effects of photobleaching and autotrophy on conservative mixing anomalies Pray for a successful Aquarius launch What’s next?

US researchers funded by NASA NASA Carbon Grant (NNX08AL8OG), J. Salisbury, PI NASA Ocean Sci. Salinity Team Grant (OSST ), D. Vandemark, PI Acknowledgements Thanks for listening! GeoCAPE info/input meeting during lunch

EXTRA SLIDES

Comparison of seasonal climatologies ( )

Monthly time-series of discharge, AMSR-E SSS, and acdm 443 along the plume trajectory from the mouth to 600km

Figure 6.

Localized 2.5 x 2.5° slope and intercept of salinity and acdm 443 Slope and intercept (contour) Salinity acdm 443 Note that there’s increasing color per unit salinity here

Monthly AMSR-E climatological SSS products over period