ESA would like to inform SMOS data users that a new version of the SMOS Toolbox and SMOS NetCDF converter are available for download.

Due to a planned software maintenance, the LTA (Long Term Archive) at Esrange Space Center in Kiruna will experience a downtime from 12:00 to 17:00 CET on Wednesday 21 January 2015.

The SMOS online archive will not be updated during the downtime.

The 2nd SMOS Science Conference is jointly organised by ESA, CNES and SMOS-MODE and will take place at ESA-ESAC, near Madrid (Spain) from 25 to 29 May 2015. The Conference will be preceded by a SMOS training course, organised by CESBIO and held at the ESA-ESAC premises near Madrid.

This is to remind all interested users that the deadline of 23 January 2015 is approaching for both abstracts submission (for the SMOS Science Conference) and applications (for the SMOS training course).

With fundamental changes happening to the chemistry of the world's oceans, salinity information from ESA's SMOS mission is being used with other Earth observation data to obtain information on 'the other carbon dioxide problem' - ocean acidification.

The L-Band radiometric measurements and in-situ snow temperatures for the first year of acquisitions of the DOMEX-3 campaign are now available for the SMOS Cal/Val users along with the yearly campaign report.

Measurements of salt held in surface seawater are becoming ever-more important for us to understand ocean circulation and Earth's water cycle. ESA's SMOS mission is proving essential to the quest.

ESA's SMOS satellite has clocked up more than one billion kilometres orbiting Earth to improve our understanding of our planet's water cycle. Marking its fifth birthday, all the data collected over land and ocean have been drawn together to show how moisture in the soil and salinity in the ocean change over the year.