Abstract:The sea surface salinity is an important indicator for studying marine ecological environments and global climate change. Based on a multi-layer neural network, a retrieval model for sea surface salinity in the Bohai Sea was established by using measured sea surface salinity data along with MODIS-Aqua remote sensing reflectance products. Subsequently, the spatiotemporal variations of salinity in the Bohai Sea over four quarters from March 2022 to March 2023 were investigated by mapping the salinity distribution of Bohai using this model. The study found that the model"s coefficient of determination (R2) and root mean square error (RMSE) were 0.66 and 0.60 respectively, perform better than the previously proposed multi-band linear model (0.39 and 0.66). The mapping of Bohai Sea salinity revealed that the dilution effect of the Yellow River freshwater is a significant factor influencing the sea surface salinity, resulting in a long-term decrease in salinity in Laizhou Bay and Liaodong Bay; After September, followed as the Bohai Cold Water Mass, the Yellow River freshwater moves southward along the Shandong Peninsula, subsequently disperses towards the Bohai Strait and the northern Yellow Sea.