SMOS Oceanic surface salinity

A map of surface salinity levels (between 32 and 38‰) recorded between August & September of 2010 and 2011 by the European Space Agency’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite, the first such satellite in the world

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SMOS

SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity), an ESA Earth Explorer satellite.

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Animation - Ocean Salinity over 5 years

Five years of global sea-surface salinity from SMOS

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