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Publications Citing Salinity Data

List of peer-reviewed publications that cite using Salinity data.

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Title	Year Sort ascending	Author	Topic	Dataset
Data interoperability between elements of the global ocean observing system	2019	Snowden, Derrick, Tsontos, Vardis M., Handegard, Nils Olav, Zarate, Marcos, O Brien, Kevin, Casey, Kenneth S., Smith, Neville, Sagen, Helge, Bailey, Kathleen, Lewis, Mirtha N., Arms, Sean C.	Salinity	Aquarius Official Release Level 3 Sea Surface Salinity Standard Mapped Image 7-Day Data V5.0
Environmental controls on the distribution of tidal wetland soil organic carbon in the continental United States	2019	Hinson, A.L., Feagin, R.A., Eriksson, M.	Estuaries, Tidal Height, Wetlands, Wetlands, Sea Surface Temperature, Salinity, Surface Water Chemistry, Estuary, Carbon	Tidal Wetlands Soil Organic Carbon and Estuarine Characteristics, USA, 1972-2015
Global patterns of submesoscale surface salinity variability	2019	Drushka, Kyla, Asher, William E., Sprintall, Janet, Gille, Sarah T., Hoang, Clifford	Surface Winds, Salinity	Aquarius Official Release Level 2 Sea Surface Salinity & Wind Speed Data V5.0
Sea surface salinity distribution in the Southern Ocean as observed from space	2019	GarciaEidell, Cynthia, Comiso, Josefino C., Dinnat, Emmanuel, Brucker, Ludovic	Brightness Temperature, Ice Fraction, Salinity	Aquarius L3 Weekly Polar-Gridded Brightness Temperature and Sea Surface Salinity V005
Remote sensing of the ocean surface refractive index via short-wave infrared polarimetry	2019	Ottaviani, Matteo, Chowdhary, Jacek, Cairns, Brian	Salinity, Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Air Temperature, Atmospheric Winds, Surface Winds, U/V Wind Components, Atmospheric Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Specific Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Atmospheric Ozone, Oxygen Compounds, Altitude, Boundary Layer Winds	Aquarius Official Release Level 3 Sea Surface Salinity Standard Mapped Image 7-Day Running Mean Data V5.0 MERRA-2 inst1_2d_asm_Nx: 2d,1-Hourly,Instantaneous,Single-Level,Assimilation,Single-Level Diagnostics 0.625 x 0.5 degree V5.12.4 (M2I1NXASM) at GES DISC
Subfootprint Variability of Sea Surface Salinity Observed during the SPURS-1 and SPURS-2 Field Campaigns	2019	Bingham, Frederick M.	Fresh Water Flux, TEMPERATURE PROFILES, Surface Winds, Salinity, HUMIDITY, SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE, Conductivity, Heat Flux, Water Temperature, Water Pressure, Salinity, Sea Surface Temperature, Sea Level Pressure, Heat Flux, Precipitation Rate, Surface Winds, CURRENT VELOCITY, PRECIPITATION RATE, Surface Winds, Surface Winds, Sea Surface Temperature, SURFACE PRESSURE	SPURS-2 Central mooring CTD, surface flux and meterorological data for the E. Tropical Pacific field campaign Aquarius Official Release Level 3 Sea Surface Salinity Standard Mapped Image Monthly Data V5.0 WHOI mooring CTD, surface flux and meterorological data for the SPURS-1 N. Atlantic field campaign SPURS-2 Waveglider data for the E. Tropical Pacific field campaign SPURS-1 research vessel Thermosalinograph series data for N. Atlantic cruises Drifter data for the SPURS-1 N. Atlantic field campaign Waveglider data for the SPURS-1 N. Atlantic field campaign
Temporal series analysis of abiotic data for a subtropical Brazilian rocky shore	2019	Silva, Marcos Goncalves da, Silva, Juliana Nascimento, Fragoso, Helena Rodrigues, Ghilardi-Lopes, Natalia Pirani	Salinity	Aquarius CAP Level 3 Sea Surface Salinity Standard Mapped Image Monthly Data V5.0
The SPURS-2 eastern tropical Pacific field campaign data collection	2019	University of North Carolina Wilmington, Bingham, Frederick, Tsontos, Vardis, deCharon, Annette, Lauter, Carla Jean, Taylor, Lisa	Salinity, TEMPERATURE PROFILES, Water Temperature, Turbulence, Conductivity, Salinity, TEMPERATURE PROFILES, Fresh Water Flux, Surface Winds, HUMIDITY, SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE, Heat Flux, Water Pressure, Precipitation Rate, Precipitation Amount, Surface Winds, Ocean Currents, Surface Winds, Atmospheric Pressure Measurements, AIR TEMPERATURE, Sea Surface Temperature, Fluorescence, Oxygen, Wind Profiles, HUMIDITY, Surface Winds, RAIN, CURRENT VELOCITY, Surface Winds, Surface Temperature	SPURS-2 PICO mooring data for the E. Tropical Pacific field campaign SPURS-2 Towed surface salinity profile (SSP) data for the E. Tropical Pacific R/V Revelle cruises SPURS-2 research vessel Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) profile data for E. Tropical Pacific R/V Revelle cruises SPURS-2 Central mooring CTD, surface flux and meterorological data for the E. Tropical Pacific field campaign SPURS-2 Passive Accoustic Listener (PAL) data from ARGO float deployments during the E. Tropical Pacific field campaign SPURS-2 research vessel along track WAMOS wave radar data for the second R/V Revelle cruise in the E. Tropical Pacific SPURS-2 research vessel CTD profile data for E. Tropical Pacific R/V Revelle cruises SPURS-2 Neutrally buoyant float data for the E. Tropical Pacific field campaign SPURS-2 Drifter data for the E. Tropical Pacific field campaign SPURS-2 Saildrone data for the E. Tropical Pacific field campaign SPURS-2 Rawinsonde meteorological data for the E. Tropical Pacific field campaign R/V Revelle cruises SPURS-2 Seaglider data for the E. Tropical Pacific field campaign SPURS-2 research vessel Underway CTD (uCTD) data for the E. Tropical Pacific R/V Revelle cruises SPURS-2 Surface Salinity Snake data for the E. Tropical Pacific field campaign R/V Revelle cruises SPURS-2 research vessel along track SEA-POL rain radar imaging data for E. Tropical Pacific R/V Revelle-2 cruise SPURS-2 Controlled Flux Technique (CFT) data for the E. Tropical Pacific field campaign R/V Revelle cruises SPURS-2 shipboard Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler data for E. Tropical Pacific R/V Revelle cruises SPURS-2 Argo float CTD profile data from the E. Tropical Pacific field campaign SPURS-2 research vessel Underway Salinity Profiling System (USPS) data for the E. Tropical Pacific R/V Revelle cruises SPURS-2 S/V Lady Amber underway Thermosalinograph and Sea Snake data for the E. Tropical Pacific field campaign SPURS-2 Waveglider data for the E. Tropical Pacific field campaign SPURS-2 Research vessel Meteorological series data for the E. Tropical Pacific field campaign R/V Revelle cruises
Using saildrones to validate satellite-derived sea surface salinity and sea surface temperature along the California/Baja Coast	2019	Vazquez-Cuervo, Jorge, Gomez-Valdes, Jose, Bouali, Marouan, Miranda, Luis, Van der Stocken, Tom, Tang, Wenqing, Gentemann, Chelle	Sea Surface Temperature, Sea Surface Temperature, Sea Surface Temperature, Sea Ice Concentration, Sea Surface Temperature, Conductivity, Oxygen, Chlorophyll, Sea Surface Temperature, AIR TEMPERATURE, Atmospheric Pressure Measurements, SURFACE WINDS, Salinity	GHRSST Level 4 MUR Global Foundation Sea Surface Temperature Analysis (v4.1) GHRSST Level 4 DMI_OI Global Foundation Sea Surface Temperature Analysis (GDS version 2) GHRSST Level 4 CMC0.1deg Global Foundation Sea Surface Temperature Analysis (GDS version 2) GHRSST Level 4 OSTIA Global Foundation Sea Surface Temperature Analysis (GDS version 2) Saildrone Baja field campaign surface and ADCP measurements
Seven Years of SMOS Sea Surface Salinity at High Latitudes: Variability	2018	Olmedo, Estrella, Gabarro, Carolina, Gonzalez-Gambau, Veronica, Martinez, Justino, Ballabrera-Poy, Joaquim, Turiel, Antonio, Portabella, Marcos, Fournier, Severine, Lee, Tong	Ice Fraction, Salinity	Aquarius L3 Weekly Polar-Gridded Sea Surface Salinity V005
Community review of Southern Ocean satellite data needs	2017	Pope, A., Wagner, P., Johnson, R., Shutler, J.D., Baeseman, J., Newman, L.	Reflectance, Salinity, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Cloud Precipitable Water, Sea Surface Temperature, Surface Winds, Water Temperature, Water Vapor Indices, Brightness Temperature, Brightness Temperature, Sea Ice Concentration, Snow Cover, Ice Velocity, Ice Velocity	GLAS/ICESat L2 Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheet Altimetry Data V034 Aquarius L3 Weekly Polar-Gridded Sea Surface Salinity V005 Aquarius L3 Weekly Polar-Gridded Brightness Temperature and Sea Surface Salinity V005 AMSR-E/Aqua L2B Global Swath Ocean Products derived from Wentz Algorithm V002 DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Pathfinder Daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures V002 Nimbus High Resolution Infrared Radiometer Digital Swath Data L1, HDF5 V001 Near-Real-Time SSM/I-SSMIS EASE-Grid Daily Global Ice Concentration and Snow Extent V004 MEaSUREs InSAR-Based Ice Velocity Maps of Central Antarctica: 1997 and 2009 V001 MEaSUREs InSAR-Based Antarctica Ice Velocity Map V002
Satellite observed salinity distributions at high latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere: A comparison of four products	2017	GarciaEidell, Cynthia, Comiso, Josefino C., Dinnat, Emmanuel, Brucker, Ludovic	Brightness Temperature, Ice Fraction, Salinity	Aquarius L3 Weekly Polar-Gridded Brightness Temperature and Sea Surface Salinity V005