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NASA NTRS · 20070015930

Aquarius Mission Technical Overview

Abstract

Aquarius is an L-band microwave instrument being developed to map the surface salinity field of the oceans from space. It is part of the Aquarius/SAC-D mission, a partnership between the USA (NASA) and Argentina (CONAE) with launch scheduled for early in 2009. The primary science objective of this mission is to monitor the seasonal and interannual variation of the large scale features of the surface salinity field in the open ocean with a spatial resolution of 150 km and a retrieval accuracy of 0.2 psu globally on a monthly basis.

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LeVine, D. M., Lagerloef, G. S. E., Yueh, S., Dinnat, E., Pellerano, F.. 2007-01-01. Aquarius Mission Technical Overview. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20070015930

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