Evaluation and Intercomparison of SMOS, Aquarius, and SMAP Sea Surface Salinity Products in the Arctic Ocean

This research was supported by a NASA grant. M. Steele was also supported by NASA grant 80NSSC18K0837, ONR grant N00014-17-1-2545, and NSF grant OPP-1751363.

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