SMOS after six years in operations: first glance at climatic trends and anomalies
Résumé
The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission has been collecting data for 6 years. The whole data set has just been reprocessed (Version 620 for levels 1 and 2 and version 3 for level 3 CATDS). This ESA led mission for Earth Observation is dedicated to provide soil moisture over continental surfaces (with an accuracy goal of 0.04 m3/m3), vegetation water content over land, and ocean salinity. After 6 years it seems important to start using data for having a look at anomalies and see how they can relate to large scale events.