CATDS-PDC L3OS 2P - Daily valid ocean salinity values product from SMOS satellite

Sea Surface Salinity

This product is an intermediate product, that provides, in daily files, SSS with qualification flags (associated confidence classes) which allow selecting valid data before averaging. Ascending and descending orbits are processed separately ** This product is no longer available, see below **

Data and resources

ATBD L3OS

Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document L3OS

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Pros/cons table

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CATDS Sipad

CATDS Sipad - Web-based interactive tool which allows subsettings and temporal agregation.

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CATDS Web portal

CATDS Web portal

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DOI of the dataset

DOI of the dataset

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Additional information

Temporal extent	2010-01-12 – ongoing
Date (publication)	2017-05-24
Status	onGoing
Update frequency	asNeeded
Metadata language	en
License	Creative Commons license to apply : Attribution (BY) : http://creativecommons.org/licenses/?lang=en
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-04
Created	2026-11-04
API	package_show