1. www.argans.co.uk SMOS L2 Ocean Salinity – status, 17/09/2008 Level 2 Ocean Salinity Processor Project Status 17 September 2008 Samantha Lavender Paul Spurgeon Caesar Mugerin

2. www.argans.co.uk SMOS L2 Ocean Salinity – status, 17/09/2008 Project status April 2008 start Contract signed July 2008 Target platform acquired September 2008 ACRI-st to ARGANS transition activities: – May: science & software: documentation (ATBD, DPM...), processor architecture design & implementation, schema, L2 prototype GUI... – July: AlgoVal – September: End-To-End

3. www.argans.co.uk SMOS L2 Ocean Salinity – status, 17/09/2008 Project status AlgoVal meetings #10 (May) & 11 (July) & 12 SMOS L2 OS web site transferred & updated – http://www.enviport.org:8080/argans/ http://www.enviport.org:8080/argans/ smos, sss2008 – includes builds, actions, change requests, & documentation databases AlgoVal Plan & End-To-End analysis

4. www.argans.co.uk SMOS L2 Ocean Salinity – status, 17/09/2008 Towards V4 Operational Processor clean build for V3+ Code & DPM review, bug fixes (full pol, convergence algorithm, Stokes vector error) – new prototype processor for ESLs Updated documentation & SVVP

5. www.argans.co.uk SMOS L2 Ocean Salinity – status, 17/09/2008 Proposed format changes SPH quality information – classify grid points by geophysical characteristics – for each class, collect a set of values describing retrieval quality: number flagged as poor quality, failing for specific reasons, successes, average sigma AGDP bias/sigma & priors LUT re-specification Tb/sigma model specification? Tb full covariance matrix specification?

6. www.argans.co.uk SMOS L2 Ocean Salinity – status, 17/09/2008 AlgoVal & End-To-End status