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In order to retrieve salinity from satellite observation, several sea surface microwave emission models have been developed based on theoretical or empirical methods and validated by in-situ measurements in different regions. However, their performances are still unclear in the Chinese coastal waters. In this study, based on two cruises measurements in the East China Sea (ECS), including the brightness temperature measured by a shipborne microwave radiometer and other auxiliary data (sea surface salinity, sea surface temperature and wind speed), the performances of different sea surface emission models are tested. The results showed that the developed models provide fairly good accuracy in predicting brightness temperature; for example, the accuracy of small perturbance\/small scale approximation model (SPM\/SSA), two-scale model (TSM) and empirical model is in the range from 0.6 K to 3 K. Moreover, the TSM and empirical models are further improved by optimizing the model parameters in the ECS. Finally, the sea surface salinity were retrieved from shipborne measured data based on the improved models, and the results show that the root mean square (rms) differences between retrieved and in-situ sea surface salinity is about 0.4 psu, indicating the significant improvement by the regional model parameters.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11212486","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,10,25]],"date-time":"2019-10-25T04:41:27Z","timestamp":1571978487000},"page":"2486","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Assessment and Improvement of Sea Surface Microwave Emission Models for Salinity Retrieval in the East China Sea"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Xuchen","family":"Jin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), Hangzhou 310012, China"}]},{"given":"Xianqiang","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), Hangzhou 310012, China"}]},{"given":"Yan","family":"Bai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), Hangzhou 310012, China"}]},{"given":"Palanisamy","family":"Shanmugam","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai 600036, India"}]},{"given":"Jianyun","family":"Ying","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), Hangzhou 310012, China"}]},{"given":"Fang","family":"Gong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), Hangzhou 310012, China"}]},{"given":"Qiankun","family":"Zhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), Hangzhou 310012, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,10,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3283","DOI":"10.1029\/97JC02438","article-title":"Salinity effects in a tropical ocean model","volume":"103","author":"Murtugudde","year":"1998","journal-title":"J. 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