FURI | Spring 2026

Inter-comparison of satellite and buoy salinity data sets in coastal California for environmental applications

Salinity data is crucial to understanding ocean circulation, and climate regulation. Salinity data is  collected by multiple instruments, each having advantages and disadvantages. By interpolating and comparing salinity data across different instruments in the same time and space these created arrays can be analyzed to identify the error margins across instrumentation types. The data is expected to have higher error with SMAP because orbital locations will cause a gap in space and time while buoys will have consistent data across time.