2019 Arctic Saildrone field campaign: measurements of sea surface salinity and temperature for validation of satellite retrievals

Chelle L Gentemann1, Peter J Minnett2, Michael Steele3, Jorge Vazquez4, Wenquing Tang5, Jacob Hoyer6, Sotirios Skarpalezos6, Chidong Zhang7, Dongxiao Zhang8 and Richard Jenkins9, (1)Earth and Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)University of Miami, RSMAS, Department of Ocean Sciences, Miami, FL, United States, (3)Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (6)Danish Meteorological Institute, København Ø, Denmark, (7)NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, United States, (8)JISAO/University of Washington and NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA, United States, (9)Saildrone Inc, Alameda, CA, United States