• 2000 days of SMOS at the Barcelona Expert Centre: a tribute to the work of Jordi Font 

      Turiel Martínez, Antonio; Piles Guillem, Maria; González Gambau, V.; Ballabrera Poy, Joaquim; Gabarró Prats, Carolina; Martinez, Justino; Olmedo, Estrella; Portabella, Marcos; Pérez López, Fernando; Solé Ollé, Jordi (2016-09-01)
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      Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) is the first satellite mission capable of measuring sea surface salinity and soil moisture from space. Its novel instrument (the L-band radiometer MIRAS) has required the development ...
    • A new space technology for ocean observation: the SMOS mission 

      Font Ferré, Jordi; Ballabrera Poy, Joaquim; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Duffo Ubeda, Núria; Durán Martínez, Israel; Emelianov Kolomitski, Mikhail; Enrique González, Luis; Fernández Gallego, Pedro; Gabarró Prats, Carolina; González, Cristina; González, Veronica; Gourrion, J.; Guimbard, S.; Hoareau, N.; Julià, A; Kalaroni, S.; Konstantinidou, Anna; Aretxabaleta, L.; Martínez, Justino; Miranda, Jorge Miguel; Monerris Belda, Alessandra; Montero, Sergio; Mourre, B.; Pablos Hernández, Miriam; Pérez Villar, Fernando; Piles Guillem, Maria; Portabella, M.; Sabia, R.; Salvador, Joaquin; Talone, Marco; Torres Torres, Francisco; Turiel Martínez, Antonio; Vall-Llossera Ferran, Mercedes Magdalena; Villarino Villarino, Ramón (2012)
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      Capability for sea surface salinity observation was an important gap in ocean remote sensing in the last few decades of the 20th century. New technological developments during the 1990s at the European Space Agency led to ...
    • Correlated triple collocation to estimate SMOS, SMAP and ERA5-Land soil moisture errors 

      Pablos Hernández, Miriam; Turiel Martínez, Antonio; Vall-Llossera Ferran, Mercedes Magdalena; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Portabella, Marcos (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021)
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      The novel Correlated Triple Collocation (CTC) analysis allows to assess three different data sources of similar spatial resolutions, but with two of them being correlated. In this study, the CTC was applied to estimate the ...
    • Floating offshore wind farms in Mediterranean marine protected areas: a cautionary tale 

      Lloret Romañach, Josep; Wawrzynkowski, Paul; Domínguez Carrió, Carlos; Sarda Borroy, Rafael; Molins i Borrell, Climent; Gili Sardá, Josep Maria; Sabatés Freijo, Ana Mª; Vila Subirós, Josep; García Taberner, Laura; Solé Ollé, Jordi; Berdalet Andrés, Elisa; Turiel Martínez, Antonio; Olivares Gallardo, Alberto (2023-08)
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      As offshore wind energy expands in Europe, maritime planners increasingly need to consider the potential effects of these activities on the different types of marine protected areas (MPAs), including Natura 2000 sites. The ...
    • From field experiments to salinity products: a tribute to the contributions of Jordi Font to the SMOS mission 

      Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Gabarró Prats, Carolina; Vall-Llossera Ferran, Mercedes Magdalena; Blanch Boris, Sebastián; Aguasca Solé, Alberto; Torres Torres, Francisco; Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Duffo Ubeda, Núria; Turiel Martínez, Antonio; Portabella, Marcos; Ballabrera Poy, Joaquim; González Gambau, V.; Martinez, Justino; Villarino Villarino, Ramón; Monerris Belda, Sandra; Bosch Lluís, Xavier; Sabia, Roberto; Talone, Marco; Piles Guillem, Maria; Pablos Hernández, Miriam; Valencia Domènech, Enric (2016-09-01)
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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 ...
    • Increasing stratification as observed by satellite sea surface salinity measurements 

      Olmedo Casal, Estrella; Turiel Martínez, Antonio; González Gambau, Verónica; González Haro, Cristina; García Espriu, Aina; Gabarró Prats, Carolina; Portabella, Marcos; Corbella Sanahuja, Ignasi; Martín Neira, Manuel; Arias Ballesteros, Manuel; Catany, Rafael; Sabia, Roberto; Olivia, Roger; Scipal, Klaus (Nature, 2022-12-01)
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      Changes in the Earth’s water cycle can be estimated by analyzing sea surface salinity. This variable refects the balance between precipitation and evaporation over the ocean, since the upper layers of the ocean are the ...
    • SMOS CP34 soil moisture and ocean salinity maps 

      Font Ferré, Jordi; Gabarró Prats, Carolina; Ballabrera Poy, Joaquim; Turiel Martínez, Antonio; Martínez, Justino; Umbert, M.; Pérez, Francisco C.; Hoareau, N.; Portabella, M.; González Gambau, Veronica; Gourrion, J.; Guimbard, S.; Piles Guillem, Maria; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Vall-Llossera Ferran, Mercedes Magdalena (2012)
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      This paper presents the soil moisture and ocean salinity maps from the SMOS mission generated operationally by the Spanish SMOS Level 3 and 4 data processing center (CP34) and experimentally by the SMOS Barcelona Expert ...
    • SMOS salinity retrievals enhancement in coastal areas by joint application of nodal sampling and corrected correlator efficiency 

      González Gambau, V.; Olmedo, Edson; Martinez, J.; Turiel Martínez, Antonio; Durán Martínez, Israel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016)
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      This work is focused on the quality improvement of ESA's SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) salinity retrievals, paying special attention to coastal regions. Two correction techniques have been applied to enhance the ...