AUTHOR=Sommer Anna , Reverdin Gilles , Kolodziejczyk Nicolas , Boutin Jacqueline TITLE=Sea Surface Salinity and Temperature Budgets in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre during SPURS Experiment: August 2012-August 2013 JOURNAL=Frontiers in Marine Science VOLUME=Volume 2 - 2015 YEAR=2015 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2015.00107 DOI=10.3389/fmars.2015.00107 ISSN=2296-7745 ABSTRACT=
Variability at large to meso-scale in sea surface salinity (SSS) and sea surface temperature (SST) is investigated in the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean during the Subtropical Atlantic Surface Salinity Experiment Strasse/SPURS in August 2012—August 2013. The products of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission corrected from large scale systematic errors are tested and used to retrieve meso-scale salinity features, while OSTIA products, resolving meso-scale temperature features are used for SST. The comparison of corrected SMOS SSS data with drifter's