From field experiments to salinity products: a tribute to the contributions of Jordi Font to the SMOS mission

  1. Adriano Camps 1
  2. Carolina Gabarró 2
  3. Mercè Vall-llossera 1
  4. Sebastià Blanch 1
  5. Albert Aguasca 1
  6. Francesc Torres 1
  7. Ignasi Corbella 1
  8. Nuria Duffo 1
  9. Antonio Turiel 2
  10. Marcos Portabella 2
  11. Joaquim Ballabrera-Poy 2
  12. Verónica González-Gambau 2
  13. Justino Martínez 2
  14. Ramón Villarino 3
  15. Luís Enrique 4
  16. Alessandra Monerris 5
  17. Xavier Bosch 6
  18. Roberto Sabia 7
  19. Marco Talone 8
  20. Maria Piles 1
  21. Míriam Pablos 1
  22. Enric Valencia 1
  1. 1 Dept. Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, c/ Jordi Girona 1-3, Campus Nord, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
  2. 2 SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, CSIC-UPC, Pg. Marítim Barceloneta 37-49, 08003 Barcelona, Spain.
  3. 3 Dept. d’Eng. Electrònica, Elèctrica i Automàtica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Av. Països Catalans, 26, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
  4. 4 ICFO, Mediterranean Technology Park, Av. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 3, 08860 Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain.
  5. 5 Faculty of Engineering, Monash University, Clayton Campus, Victoria 3168, Australia
  6. 6 Microwave Systems Lab., Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO 80523 USA.
  7. 7 Telespazio-Vega UK Ltd for ESA/ESRIN, Via Galileo Galilei, Casella Postale 64, 00044 Frascati (Roma), Italy
  8. 8 Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES), EC Joint Research Centre, via Enrico Fermi, 2749, Ispra, Italy
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Scientia Marina
  1. Vaqué, Dolors (coord.)
  2. Pelegrí Llopart, José Luis (coord.)

ISSN: 0214-8358

Año de publicación: 2016

Título del ejemplar: Planet Ocean

Volumen: 80

Número: 1

Páginas: 159-172

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.3989/SCIMAR.04285.04A DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

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This article summarizes some of the activities in which Jordi Font, research professor and head of the Department of Physical and Technological Oceanography, Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC, Spanish National Research Council) in Barcelona, has been involved as co-Principal Investigator for Ocean Salinity of the European Space Agency Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Earth Explorer Mission from the perspective of the Remote Sensing Lab at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. We have probably left out some of his many contributions to salinity remote sensing, but we hope that this review will give an idea of the importance of his work. We focus on the following issues: 1) the new accurate measurements of the sea water dielectric constant, 2) the WISE and EuroSTARRS field experiments that helped to define the geophysical model function relating brightness temperature to sea state, 3) the FROG 2003 field experiment that helped to understand the emission of sea foam, 4) GNSS-R techniques for improving sea surface salinity retrieval, 5) instrument characterization campaigns, and 6) the operational implementation of the Processing Centre of Levels 3 and 4 at the SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre.

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