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Session Proposal: Discoveries from the SWOT Mission: Insights into Ocean Dynamics, Marine Gravity, the Cryosphere, Deltas, and Estuaries (AGU25)

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Discoveries from the SWOT Mission: Insights into Ocean Dynamics, Marine Gravity, the Cryosphere, Deltas, and Estuaries

Session ID#: 251576

Session Description:
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission, launched in December 2022, is transforming our understanding of the ocean with its wide-swath, high-resolution radar interferometric altimetry. Now with more than two years of global observations, SWOT has enabled major breakthroughs in ocean dynamics and solid earth, capturing small-scale eddies, internal waves, and the fine structure of seafloor tectonics. This session invites presentations on scientific advances using SWOT data across disciplines, including but not limited to, physical oceanography, marine geophysics, cryosphere, deltas and estuaries. Contributions on novel analysis techniques and integrative approaches that combine SWOT with other datasets are also welcome.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • C - Cryosphere
  • G - Geodesy
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

1240 Satellite geodesy: results [GEODESY AND GRAVITY]
4235 Estuarine processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4512 Currents [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4520 Eddies and mesoscale processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Primary Convener:  J. Thomas Farrar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States
Conveners:  Sahra Kacimi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Ole Baltazar Andersen, DTU Space, Lyngby, Denmark and Yao Yu, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, La Jolla, United States
 
High-Resolution Eddy Dynamics in the Gulf of Mexico: Insights from SWOT and PACE (1858339)
Subrahmanyam Bulusu, University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, SC, United States
 
The SWOT Revolution in River Deltas and Estuaries Has Begun (Invited) (1879315)
Marc Simard, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Alexandra Christensen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Suborbital Radar Science and Engineering, Pasadena, United States, Ali Reza Payandeh, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Pascal Matte, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Meteorological Research Division, Quebec, QC, Canada
 
Analysis of Sea Level Variability and Spatial Characteristics in the East, Yellow, and South Seas of the Korean Peninsula Using Sentinel-3A, Sentinel-3B, and SWOT Satellite Data (1908149)
Dohyun Hwang1, Hahn Chul Jung2, KyungHwan Shin2, Kuo-Hsin Tseng3 and Hyongki Lee4, (1)Yonsei University, Greener-Futures Research Institute of Science, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Yonsei University, Department of Earth System Sciences, Seoul, South Korea, (3)National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, (4)University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, United States
 
Evaluation of SWOT Performance and Accuracy in Estuaries and Deltas (1925746)
Alexandra Christensen1, Marc Simard1, Michael W Denbina2, Pascal Matte3, David Purnell4, Nicaise Rabenkogo5 and Emmanuel Mambela6, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Government of Canada, Quebec, Canada, (4)Laval University, Civil and Water Engineering, Quebec, QC, Canada, (5)Institut de Recherche en Sciences Humaines, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique, Libreville, Gabon, (6)The Nature Conservancy Gabon, Libreville, Gabon
 
Chaotic spreading detected in SWOT gravity records Pacific plate reorganization (1928137)
Josephine Joergensen1, Maria Seton2 and Dietmar Müller2, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)The University of Sydney, EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia
 
The DTU25MSS Mean Sea Surface and the Effect of the SWOT Diamond-shaped Observation gaps (1945309)
Ole Baltazar Andersen, Technical University of Denmark, Geodesy and Earth Observation, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, Bjarke Nilsson, DTU Space, Lyngby, Denmark and Per Knudsen, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
 
SWOT in the Cryosphere: Promise, Progress, and Challenges (Invited) (1978772)
Tasha Snow1, Cassie Stuurman2, Sara Fleury3, Mohammed Dabboor4, Laurence Padman5, Susan Lynn Howard6, Zachary Katz7, Sonam Futi Sherpa8, Ellianna Abrahams9, Matthew Siegfried10, Imogen Garlick11, Rosemary Willatt12, Felix Lucian Müller13, Antonio Bonaduce14, Andrew F Thompson15, Camryn Kluetmeier16, Pierre Rampal17, Sahra Kacimi2, J. Toby Minear18 and Khalil Bakhtiari Asl19, (1)University of Maryland College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)LEGOS (CNRS/Toulouse University/CNES/IRD), Toulouse, France, (4)Environment Canada, Science and Technology Branch, Thornhill, ON, Canada, (5)Earth & Space Research, Corvallis, United States, (6)Earth & Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States, (7)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (8)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences (DEEPS), Providence, RI, United States, (9)Stanford University, Stanford Data Science Initiative, Palo Alto, United States, (10)Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Golden, United States, (11)University College London, Department of Space & Climate Physics, London, United Kingdom, (12)University College London, Department of Earth Sciences, London, United Kingdom, (13)Technical University of Munich, Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut (DGFI-TUM), Munich, Germany, (14)Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Bergen, Norway, (15)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (16)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States, (17)Institut de Géophysique de l'Environnement, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (IGE/CNRS), Grenoble, France, (18)USGS, Baltimore, United States, (19)Centre Eau Terre Environnement, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Quebec, Canada
 
Illuminating Arctic Sea Ice Dynamics with SWOT and ICESat-2 (1981105)
Sinéad L Louise Farrell1,2, Reint Fischer1, Kyle Duncan3 and Kennedy Lange1, (1)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland, Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies (CISESS), Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), College Park, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies (CISESS), Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), College Park, United States
 
Influence of Sea Level Rise and Tidal Dynamics on Estuarine and Upstream Flooding as Observed by the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Satellite Mission (1985871)
Martin Rasmus Kolster, University of Colorado Boulder, Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States, R Steven Nerem, Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and J. Toby Minear, CIRES/University of Colorado, Boulder, United States
 
Characterizing Submesoscale Ocean Dynamics from SWOT with the Scattering Transform (1997775)
Jack Skinner, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Albion Lawrence, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, United States and Jörn Callies, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
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