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SMOS data distribution resumed
13 Mar 2024
SMOS data distribution to end users was resumed on 12 March 2024 after confirmation of the adequate quality of the current data.
SMOS data outage since 22 February 2024
28 Feb 2024
SMOS went into safe mode on 22 February 2024 at 05:10 UTC for reasons that are still under investigation.
New reanalysis dataset impacts SMOS Level 3 and 4 sea ice thickness
19 Feb 2024
On 24 January 2024 the JRA55 reanalysis dataset was terminated and updated with the Japanese Reanalysis for Three Quarters of a Century.
Highlighting the value of SMOS data in space weather applications
17 Jan 2024
Data from ESA’s SMOS mission are driving many space weather applications, ranging from air navigation, characterisation of solar flares, space weather modelling and ionospheric electron content mapping.
SMOS Tools updates
17 July 2023
Updates for two SMOS tools have been released, offering new features and improvements.
SMOS Near Real Time Sea Surface Wind Speed products back to nominal dissemination
23 May 2023
Following a pause in the dissemination of SMOS Near Real Time Sea Surface Wind Speed data on 2 May, the processor has now been updated and nominal dissemination has resumed.
ESA invites scientists to submit abstracts for EGU 2023
14 Dec 2022
ESA is calling for researchers to submit abstracts for sessions at the next General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU 2023).
SMOS L2 Sea Surface Salinity products documentation updates
24 Mar 2022
SMOS L2 Sea Surface Salinity product validation report is now available.
New reprocessing of datasets celebrates 30 years of ERS
22 July 2021
The ERS programme celebrated its 30th anniversary on 17 July. Today, we are still exploiting ERS data and experts continue to work on improving the altimeter, radiometer and SAR data the programme acquired.
New Campaign datasets available
15 Dec 2020
A new set of datasets is available, acquired during airborne campaigns conducted between 2014 and 2019
CRYO2ICE is now on Earth Online
10 July 2020
On 16 July, ESA is kicking off the CRYO2ICE campaign that will raise the orbit of its CryoSat-2 satellite to periodically align with NASA’s ICESat-2.
New CryoSat BUFR products for the meteorological community
11 May 2020
From 11 May new CryoSAT NOP data will be disseminated by ESA to the Italian MetOffice.
New SMOS sea surface wind speed products now available
17 Apr 2020
The SMOS Wind Data Service provides, in near real time (NRT), surface wind speed over the ocean derived from the brightness temperature measurements of SMOS.
CryoSat magnetometer data now available to support Swarm Sciences
5 July 2019
We are pleased to announce the new release of magnetic field data recorded by Fluxgate magnetometers, operating on-board ESA's CryoSat mission.
ERS-1 Scatterometer L2 dataset processed with ASPS v10.04 is available online
13 June 2019
The reprocessed dataset together with corresponding ERS-2 data is now available.