SKIM


Sea surface kinematics multiscale monitoring was one of the two candidate missions for the 9th Earth Explorer mission of in the Living Planet Programme of the European Space Agency. SKIM and the other candidate were pre-selected for a detailed study in November 2017. Only one of the two candidates was to be selected in 2019 for immediate implementation and a possible launch by the year 2025, and FORUM was chosen.

Context

SKIM builds on the technological heritage of the SWIM instrument now flying on the China-France Ocean Satellite, with the important addition of Doppler measurement and changing from Ku to Ka-band. SKIM also inherits experience with Ka-band altimetery from the Indian-France SARAL-AltiKa mission.

Scientific Objectives

The mission's science goals are to
more specifically,