{"id":2997,"date":"2026-07-30T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/smos-salinity-could-offer-early-indicator-of-el-nino\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T07:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T07:20:00","slug":"smos-salinity-could-offer-early-indicator-of-el-nino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/smos-salinity-could-offer-early-indicator-of-el-nino\/","title":{"rendered":"SMOS salinity could offer early indicator of El Ni\u00f1o"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2026\/07\/pacific_ocean_salinity_june_2026\/27397989-1-eng-GB\/Pacific_Ocean_salinity_June_2026_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Pacific Ocean salinity June 2026\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the Pacific Ocean moves into an El Ni\u00f1o phase, scientists are monitoring changes in sea-surface temperature, but also sea-surface salinity \u2013 which is another key indicator of this phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>Measurements from satellites such as the European Space Agency&#8217;s SMOS mission are revealing how freshwater and salt patterns shift across the Pacific as this year\u2019s El Ni\u00f1o develops \u2013 offering a potential new pathway for early detection.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Pacific Ocean moves into an El Ni\u00f1o phase, scientists are monitoring changes in sea-surface temperature, but also sea-surface salinity \u2013 which is another key indicator of this phenomenon. Measurements from satellites such as the European Space Agency&#8217;s SMOS mission are revealing how freshwater and salt patterns shift across the Pacific as this year\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}