New SMOS/CATDS retrieval overcomes previous issues in the Bay of Bengal: assessment of its seasonal and interannual surface salinity variability.

Akhil Valiya Parambil, National Institute of Oceanography, Panaji-Goa, India, Jérôme Vialard, LOCEAN-IPSL, Paris cedex 05, France, Matthieu Lengaigne, National Institute of Occeanography, Goa, India, M. G. Keerthi, PhD Student, Marine Science Department, Goa University, Panaji, Goa, India, Jacqueline Boutin, CNRS, LOCEAN/UPMC, Paris, France, Jean-Luc Vergely, ACRI-st, Sophia-Antipolis, France and Stéphane Marchand, LOCEAN CNRS, France