Sea surface temperature and salinity from French research vessels, 2001–2013

French Research vessels have been collecting thermo-salinometer (TSG) data since 1999 to contribute to the Global Ocean Surface Underway Data (GOSUD) programme. The instruments are regularly calibrated and continuously monitored. Water samples are taken on a daily basis by the crew and later analyse...

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Autores principales: Gaillard, Fabienne, Diverres, Denis, Jacquin, Stéphane, Gouriou, Yves, Grelet, Jacques, Le Menn, Marc, Tassel, Joelle, Reverdin, Gilles
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4603393/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26504523
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2015.54
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author Gaillard, Fabienne
Diverres, Denis
Jacquin, Stéphane
Gouriou, Yves
Grelet, Jacques
Le Menn, Marc
Tassel, Joelle
Reverdin, Gilles
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Diverres, Denis
Jacquin, Stéphane
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Grelet, Jacques
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description French Research vessels have been collecting thermo-salinometer (TSG) data since 1999 to contribute to the Global Ocean Surface Underway Data (GOSUD) programme. The instruments are regularly calibrated and continuously monitored. Water samples are taken on a daily basis by the crew and later analysed in the laboratory. We present here the delayed mode processing of the 2001–2013 dataset and an overview of the resulting quality. Salinity measurement error was a few hundredths of a unit or less on the practical salinity scale (PSS), due to careful calibration and instrument maintenance, complemented with a rigorous adjustment on water samples. In a global comparison, these data show excellent agreement with an ARGO-based salinity gridded product. The Sea Surface Salinity and Temperature from French REsearch SHips (SSST-FRESH) dataset is very valuable for the ‘calibration and validation’ of the new satellite observations delivered by the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) and Aquarius missions.
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spelling pubmed-46033932015-10-26 Sea surface temperature and salinity from French research vessels, 2001–2013 Gaillard, Fabienne Diverres, Denis Jacquin, Stéphane Gouriou, Yves Grelet, Jacques Le Menn, Marc Tassel, Joelle Reverdin, Gilles Sci Data Data Descriptor French Research vessels have been collecting thermo-salinometer (TSG) data since 1999 to contribute to the Global Ocean Surface Underway Data (GOSUD) programme. The instruments are regularly calibrated and continuously monitored. Water samples are taken on a daily basis by the crew and later analysed in the laboratory. We present here the delayed mode processing of the 2001–2013 dataset and an overview of the resulting quality. Salinity measurement error was a few hundredths of a unit or less on the practical salinity scale (PSS), due to careful calibration and instrument maintenance, complemented with a rigorous adjustment on water samples. In a global comparison, these data show excellent agreement with an ARGO-based salinity gridded product. The Sea Surface Salinity and Temperature from French REsearch SHips (SSST-FRESH) dataset is very valuable for the ‘calibration and validation’ of the new satellite observations delivered by the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) and Aquarius missions. Nature Publishing Group 2015-10-13 /pmc/articles/PMC4603393/ /pubmed/26504523 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2015.54 Text en Copyright © 2015, Macmillan Publishers Limited http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Metadata associated with this Data Descriptor is available at http://www.nature.com/sdata/ and is released under the CC0 waiver to maximize reuse.
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