Available Products

The main goal of Barcelona Expert Center (BEC) is to generate higher added-value products of interest for a broad range of users. With this aim we offer the following variables:

Ocean variables

Sea Surface Salinity

These products have been generated from SMOS Level 1B products provided by ESA using a new methodological approach to cope with land and RFI contamination. This methodology is known as Debiased non-Bayesian and it is described at [Olmedo2017]

Product type	Spatial Resolution	Temporal Resolution	Grid	Spatial Coverage	Temporal Coverage
Arctic v3.1 [1]
L3	25 km x 25 km	9-day	EASE 2.0 North	50º to 90º latitude	2011-2019
Baltic v1.0 [2]
L3	0.25ºx0.25º	9-day	Rectangular	8º to 30.5º longitude 53.5º to 68º latitude	Feb 2011-2019
L4	0.05ºx0.05º	Daily	Rectangular	8º to 30.5º longitude 53.5º to 68º latitude	Feb 2011-2019
Black Sea v1.0 [3]
L2 ASC/DES	0.25ºx0.25º	Daily	Rectangular	26º to 42º longitude 39º to 48º latitude	2011-2020
L3	0.25ºx0.25º	9-day	Rectangular	26º to 42º longitude 39º to 48º latitude	2011-2020
L4	0.05ºx0.0505º	Daily	Rectangular	26º to 42º longitude 39º to 48º latitude	2011-2019
Global v2.0 [4]
L3	0.25ºx0.25º	9-day	Rectangular	all	2011-May 2021
L4	0.05ºx0.05º	Daily	Rectangular	all	2011-May 2021
Mediterranean and North Atlantic v2.0 [5]
L3	0.25ºx0.25º	9-day	Rectangular	all	2011-2016
L4	0.05ºx0.05º	Daily	Rectangular	all	2011-2016

[Olmedo2017] E. Olmedo, J. Martínez, A. Turiel, J. Ballabrera-Poy, M. Portabella, Debiased non-Bayesian retrieval: A novel approach to SMOS Sea Surface Salinity, Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 193, 2017, Pages 103-126, ISSN 0034-4257,10.1016/j.rse.2017.02.023.

Documentation:

[1] Arctic v3.1: Barcelona Expert Center (2021). BEC-SSS-PD-SSS-Arctic-v3.1. Products Description, BEC 2021-03-09. Issue 1.0 Download

[2] Baltic v1.0: Barcelona Expert Center (2021). BEC_PD_SSS_Baltic_L3_L4. Products Description, BEC 2021-07-29. Issue 1.0 Download

[3] Black Sea v1.0: Barcelona Expert Center (2021). BEC-PD-SSS-Black-L2-L3-L4. Products Description, BEC 2021-10-25. Issue 1.0 Download

[4] Global v2.0: Barcelona Expert Center (2020). BEC-SMOS-PD-SSSv2-v1.pdf. Products Description, BEC 2020-05-11. Issue 1.0 Download

[5] Mediterranean and North Atlantic v2.0: Barcelona Expert Center (2019). BEC-SMOS-0003-PD-SSS-MED. Products Description, BEC 2019-08-02. Issue 1.0 Download

Sea Ice Concentration

Product type	Spatial Resolution	Temporal Resolution	Grid	Spatial Coverage	Temporal Coverage
Arctic v1.0 [1]
L3	25 km x 25 km	daily	EASE NL	50º to 90º latitude	2011-2019

Documentation:

[1] Arctic v1.0: Barcelona Expert Center (2018). BEC-SMOS-0001-PD-Ice. Products Description, BEC 2018-07-20. Issue 1.1 Download

Singularity Exponents

This product is useful for front identification, eddy tracking, and assessing mesoscale activity.

Product type	Spatial Resolution	Temporal Resolution	Grid	Spatial Coverage	Temporal Coverage
Singularity Exponents
L4	25º x 25º	daily	EASE NL	all	2010-Present

Land variables

Soil Moisture related data is available in Land section

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