Characteristics of satellite-observed sea surface salinity errors in the northwest Pacific Ocean and oceanic responses to typhoons

In this study, we investigated the accuracies of SSS in the northwest Pacific Ocean for the recent three years (2012–2014) by comparison with in situ salinity measurements from Argo floats, moored buoys, and many of ship CTD measurements. The satellite SSS errors of the northwest Pacific Ocean presented characteristic dependence on latitudes close to the global ocean but were mostly underestimated at all ranges of SST and wind speed.