A new version v9 of debiased SSS L3 maps from LOCEAN/ACRI-st is available for you to get!

Jacqueline Boutin indicates that…

… A new version (version 9) of de-biased SMOS SSS L3 maps generated by LOCEAN /ACRI-ST is now available on CATDS CEC-OS.

This ninth version of Level 3 SMOS SSS covers the period January 2010 to December 2023. A correction of SMOS SSS from systematic biases uses an improved ‘de-biasing’ technique, similar to the one used to produce version 8. Validation reports of the product compared to various sources of in situ measurements are available at PIMEP. At global scale, without any filtering, r² between CEC v9 SSS and Argo delayed time SSS are 0.947 (9-day products) and 0.969 (18-day products), robust std of the difference is 0.26 (9-day products) and 0.18 (18-day products).

Feedback from users about the quality of these new products are mostwelcome, as the products are experimental.