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Combining the altimeter-derived currents with sea-surface temperature information, we created daily, gap-free high resolution maps of sea surface currents for the period 2012\u20132016. The quality of the new multi-sensor currents has been assessed through comparisons to other surface-currents estimates, as the ones obtained from drifting buoys trajectories (at the basin scale), or HF-Radar platforms and ocean numerical model outputs in the Malta\u2013Sicily Channel. The study yielded that our synergetic approach can improve the present-day derivation of the surface currents in the Mediterranean area up to 30% locally, with better performances for the the meridional component of the motion and in the western section of the basin. The proposed reconstruction method also showed satisfying performances in the retrieval of the ageostrophic circulation in the Sicily Channel. In this area, assuming the High Frequency Radar-derived currents as reference, the merged multi-sensor currents exhibited improvements with respect to the altimeter estimates and numerical model outputs, mainly due to their enhanced spatial and temporal resolution.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11111285","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,5,30]],"date-time":"2019-05-30T11:07:44Z","timestamp":1559214464000},"page":"1285","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["A Synergetic Approach for the Space-Based Sea Surface Currents Retrieval in the Mediterranean Sea"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8767-4379","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Daniele","family":"Ciani","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienze Marine (CNR-ISMAR), Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Rome, Italy"}]},{"given":"Marie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne","family":"Rio","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"European Space Agency, European Space Research Institute (ESA-ESRIN), Largo Galileo Galilei, 1, 00044 Frascati, Italy"}]},{"given":"Milena","family":"Menna","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS), Borgo Grotta Gigante 42\/C, 34010 Sgonico, Trieste, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2900-5054","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rosalia","family":"Santoleri","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienze Marine (CNR-ISMAR), Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Rome, Italy"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,5,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1409","DOI":"10.1175\/JTECH-D-12-00032.1","article-title":"Using high-resolution altimetry to observe mesoscale signals","volume":"29","author":"Pujol","year":"2012","journal-title":"J. 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