SMOS QWG-5, 30 May – 1 June 2011, ESRIN LO calibration frequency impact on ocean salinity V. González, C. Gabarró, J. Martínez, M. Portabella, J. Font and BEC–TEA SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre Pg. Marítim de la Barceloneta 37-49, Barcelona SPAIN E-mail: [email protected]URL: www.smos-bec.icm.csic.es
LO calibration frequency impact on ocean salinity. V. González, C. Gabarró, J. Martínez, M. Portabella, J. Font and BEC–TEAM SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre Pg. Marítim de la Barceloneta 37-49, Barcelona SPAIN E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.smos-bec.icm.csic.es. Decimation study using MTS. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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SMOS QWG-5, 30 May – 1 June 2011, ESRIN
LO calibration frequency impact on ocean salinity
V. González, C. Gabarró, J. Martínez,
M. Portabella, J. Font and BEC–TEAMSMOS Barcelona Expert CentrePg. Marítim de la Barceloneta 37-49, Barcelona SPAINE-mail: [email protected]: www.smos-bec.icm.csic.es
SMOS QWG-5, 30 May – 1 June 2011, ESRIN 2
Decimation study using MTS
Assessment of the LO calibration frequency impact on TB.
Data acquired at 2min and decimated at 6min and 10min.
Descending orbit over Pacific: 20100325T040821.
All the comparisons are relative to the 2min LO calibration frequency data.
Only AF-FOV grid points
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TB maps @ 38-40º in the AF-FOV
TBH10min-TBH2min TBV10min-TBV2min
[K]
MIRAS-TS
SMOS QWG-5, 30 May – 1 June 2011, ESRIN
L1pp: TB maps @ 38-40º in the AF-FOV
L1PP_3.5
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TB_10min-TB_2min AF-FOV
TB10min – TB2min
H-pol
V-pol
L1PP_3.5MIRAS-TS
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TBH6min-TBH2min TBV6min-TBV2min
TB maps @ 38-40º in the AF-FOV
MIRAS-TS
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TB_6min-TB_2min AF-FOVTB6min – TB2min
H-pol
V-pol
MIRAS-TS L1PP_3.5
WARNING: different K scale
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SSS 24-25 march 2010 57 orb
SSS 10min – 2min
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SSS 24-25 march 2010 57 orb
SSS 6min – 2min
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Conclusions
The present LO calibration frequency has a clear impact on TB (larger in V-pol) and SSS.
TB differences between LO-10min and LO-2min have a global STD of 0.47 K (1.1K in N. Atlantic, 0.21 K in Pacific)
Differences in SSS (filtered by good retrieval flag): global STD 0.48 psu (0.94 psu in N. Atlantic, 0.20 psu in Pacific)
Accuracy requirement for L2 SSS is 1.2 psu. We don’t know yet the actual retrieval error, but the low calibration freq can represent in average 0.5 psu of additional error!!
SMOS SSS requirements will likely never be met with LO being calibrated at 10 min intervals
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On statistics
During 10 minutes 500 SMOS snapshots are acquired
Calibrating LO every 10 min means loosing up to 8 snapshots, then the error in building an L3 map by averaging L2 products (wrt no calibration) increases by sqrt (500)/sqrt(492) = 1.008
Calibrating every 2 min, 40 snapshots maximum are lost, the L3 error increases by sqrt(500)/sqrt(460) = 1.043
Going back to one orbit, the increase of usable snapshots @10 min compared to @2 min implies an error reduction of sqrt(492)/ sqrt(460) = 1.034
This 3.4% reduction on the required SSS error means 0.04 psu
We showed that calibrating @2 min instead of @10 min implies an error reduction by 0.48 psu in global average