Figure 3From: The salinity signature of the equatorial Pacific cold tongue as revealed by the satellite SMOS missionTimeseries of (top) SST and (bottom) SSS fields from NCEP averaged over the Wyrtki box (black lines). For SST the SST variations associated with the waters denser than 23.0 kg/m3 are superimposed for the SMOS (blue), NCEP (red) and CSIRO (green) analysis. For SSS, the SMOS estimate over the full domain is shown in light blue, the color code remaining unchanged for the other curves and corresponds to the same criterion as shown in the SST part.Back to article page