OS023
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission: A New Satellite for Earth’s Water Cycle

Session ID#: 161605

Session Description:
The new Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission is designed to address scientific questions about the nature of the global water cycle, both terrestrial and oceanic. Using Ka-band radar interferometry and Ku-band altimetry, it will for the first time provide simultaneous, high-resolution global measurements of ocean surface elevations and river and lake water surface elevations and inundation extents. This data will fundamentally transform our ability to understand processes in rivers, lakes, estuaries, and the submesoscale ocean. The science community across oceanography, hydrology, and remote sensing science has worked for more than a decade to develop new methods and scientific understanding that will allow SWOT data to advance our understanding of the movement of water across the globe.  For this session, we solicit abstracts that provide an understanding of the recent advances that will enable the SWOT mission to enhance our understanding of Earth’s surface water and oceans.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • ASPRS: American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing -
Index Terms:

1855 Remote sensing [HYDROLOGY]
1856 River channels [HYDROLOGY]
4275 Remote sensing and electromagnetic processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4520 Eddies and mesoscale processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]

Primary Convener:  Tamlin Pavelsky, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
Conveners:  Jessica V Fayne, UCLA, Geography, Los Angeles, United States, SAND-Brian K Arbic, University of Michigan, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Sarah T Gille, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Jessica V Fayne, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Quantifying Wave Error on SWOT Sea Surface Height in the Southern Ocean (1045627)
Jessica Caggiano and Don P Chambers, University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, United States
 
Bridging water storage and discharge: a priori data and algorithm improvements towards synergistic use of SWOT’s lake and river measurements (Invited) (1049945)
Jida Wang1, Md. Safat Sikder2, George H. Allen3, Yongwei Sheng4, Ryan Riggs3, Dai Yamazaki5, Jean-Francois Cretaux6 and Tamlin Pavelsky7, (1)Kansas State University, Geography and Geospatial Sciences, Manhattan, United States, (2)Kansas State University, Geography and Geospatial Sciences, Manhattan, KS, United States, (3)Texas A&M University, Department of Geography, College Station, United States, (4)UCLA Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)The University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, Tokyo, Japan, (6)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (7)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
 
The Prospects of the SWOT Mission on Studying the Small-scale Ocean Circulation in Both the Open and Coastal Oceans (Invited) (1063077)
Lee-Lueng Fu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Comparison of Internal Waves Characteristics in ECCO Estimates of Sea Surface Salinity and Sea Surface Height in the Bay of Bengal (1068251)
Subrahmanyam Bulusu1, Vsn Murty2 and Sarah B. Hall1, (1)University of South Carolina Columbia, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment, Columbia, SC, United States, (2)National Institute of Oceanography Regional Center Visakhapatnam, Visakhapatnam, India
 
Observational Constraints on the Submesoscale Sea Surface Height Variance of Balanced Motion (1071077)
Charly de Marez1, Jörn Callies1, Jinbo Wang2 and Bruce Joseph Haines3, (1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
 
Uncertainty in River Discharge Estimation Based on Proxy SWOT Data: a Case Study Over India (1077919)
Girish Patidar1, Subhankar Karmakar1,2 and J. Indu1,3, (1)Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Interdisciplinary Programme in Climate Studies, Mumbai, India, (2)Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Environmental Science and Engineering Department, Interdisciplinary Program in Climate Studies, Centre for Urban Science and Engineering, Mumbai, India, (3)Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Department of Civil Engineering, Mumbai, India
 
Tools4SWOTsims and SMURF – Python Libraries Supporting the Generation of Synthetical SWOT-like data in Anticipation of Real Products For River Hydrodynamics Studies with the Mascaret Hydraulic Model (1080741)
Charlotte Emery, CS GROUP - France, Space Business Unit, Toulouse, France, Sophie M Ricci, CECI, CERFACS/UMR5318-CNRS, Toulouse, France and Andrea Piacentini, CERFACS European Centre for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computation, Toulouse Cedex 01, France
 
Evaluating the potential of future Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission on dynamic river channels (1086872)
Manu K Soman and J. Indu, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
 
Anticipated Continental-Scale River Gas Exchange Dynamics: How will SWOT Inform River CO2 Modeling? (1115246)
Craig Byron Brinkerhoff1, Colin J Gleason1, Yuta Ishitsuka1, Jeison Sosa2, Paul D Bates2 and Shaoda Liu3, (1)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States, (2)University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, (3)BNU Beijing Normal University, School of Environment, Beijing, China
 
Using Hydrodynamic Models to Simulate SWOT Data in Coastal Areas (1115852)
Alexandra Christensen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Marc Simard, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Seasonality of sub-mesoscale sea surface variability from multi-year satellite altimetry: getting ready for SWOT (1119260)
Yao Yu, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, David T Sandwell, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, La Jolla, United States and Sarah T Gille, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
An updated understanding of global rivers from a new global river discharge reanalysis product: implications for SWOT mission (1120598)
Dongmei Feng, University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati, OH, United States and Colin J Gleason, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States
 
Using SWOT observed lake storage change to constrain river inflow and outflow discharge. (1120669)
Ryan Matthew Riggs1, George H. Allen2, Jida Wang3 and Md. Safat Sikder3, (1)Texas A&M University, Department of Geography, College Station, TX, United States, (2)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States, (3)Kansas State University, Geography and Geospatial Sciences, Manhattan, KS, United States
 
Potential River Avulsion on the Peace-Athabasca Delta, Canada Detected from Reach-averaged AirSWOT Data (1123143)
Laurence C Smith1, Jessica V. Fayne2, Bo Wang1, Ethan D. Kyzivat1, Colin J Gleason3, Merritt Harlan4, Ted Langhorst5, Emily Eidam6, Yuta Ishitsuka3, Dongmei Feng7, Wayana Dolan8, Tamlin Pavelsky9, Lincoln H H Pitcher10 and Daniel L Peters11, (1)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, United States, (3)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States, (4)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, United States, (5)UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States, (6)University of North Carolina, Marine Sciences, Chapel Hill, United States, (7)University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Ohio, United States, (8)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Earth, Marine, and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, United States, (9)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States, (10)CIRES, Boulder, United States, (11)Environment and Climate Change Canada, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
 
Applied Science User Communities of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission (1126763)
Margaret M Srinivasan1, Vardis M Tsontos2, Matthew Bonnema3, Nicolas Picot4, Santiago Pena Luque4 and Bradley Doorn5, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA/JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (5)NASA Headquarters, Applied Sciences Program, Water Resources & Agriculture, Washington, United States
 
Assessing the feasibility of SWOT flow law parameter inversions in multichannel rivers (1128005)
Renato P. M. Frasson1, Ernesto Rodriguez2, Michael T Durand3, Chunli Dai4, Bidhyananda Yadav5, Ian M Howat5 and Joachim Moortgat6, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States, (4)School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences (SFFGS), University of Florida, Gainesville, United States, (5)Ohio State University, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States, (6)Ohio State University Main Campus, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States
 
Assessment of Official SWOT Products for Connected Lakes Prior to Launch (1131968)
Elizabeth Cauvier Charest, Sherbrooke, QC, CANADA, Melanie Trudel, University of Sherbrooke, Civil and Building Engineering, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, Sylvain Biancamaria, OMP/LEGOS, Toulouse, France, Claire Pottier, CNES, Toulouse, France and Manon Delhoume, CS Group, Toulouse, France
 
Map of Incoherent Internal Tides in the World's Oceans (1132285)
Ritabrata Thakur1, SAND-Brian K Arbic2, Gary D Egbert3, Svetlana Erofeeva3 and Edward D Zaron4, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, United States
 
From Nadir to Swath Altimetry to Monitor Changes of Water Cycle in Discharge and Water Storage (1135743)
Luciana Fenoglio-Marc1, Hakan Uyanik2, Jiaming Chen2 and Jürgen Kusche2, (1)University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, (2)University of Bonn, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, Bonn, Germany
 
Global Discharge Estimation By Assimilating Satellite Altimetry with the Current Limitations of the Hydrodynamic Models in the perspective of SWOT mission (1137876)
Menaka Revel1, Xudong Zhou2, Dai Yamazaki2 and Shinjiro Kanae3, (1)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (2)The University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, Tokyo, Japan, (3)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tokyo, Japan
 
A global framework for SWOT discharge with examples from the Ohio River (1146594)
Michael T Durand1, Colin J Gleason2, Tamlin Pavelsky3, Renato P. M. Frasson4, Michael Turmon5, Cedric H David6, Elizabeth H Altenau7, Nikki Tebaldi8, Kevin Larnier9, Jerome Monnier10, Pierre-Olivier Malaterre11, Hind Oubanas12, George H. Allen13, Paul D Bates14, David M Bjerklie15, Craig Byron Brinkerhoff2, Stephen Paul Coss16, Robert W Dudley17, Luciana Fenoglio-Marc18, Pierre-Andre Garambois19, Augusto Getirana20, Peirong Lin21, Steven A Margulis22, J. Toby Minear23, Aggrey Muhebwa8, Ryan Riggs13, Angelica Tarpanelli24, Kerstin Schulze25, Md. Safat Sikder26, Cassie Stuurman5, Jay Taneja27, Mohammad J. Tourian28 and SWOT Science Team Discharge Algorithm Working Group, (1)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States, (3)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States, (4)Ohio State University Main Campus, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (7)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (8)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States, (9)CS GROUP - France, Space Business Unit, Toulouse, France, (10)University INSA & Mathematics Institute of Toulouse, Toulouse cedex 4, France, (11)INRAE, Montpellier, France, (12)IRSTEA, Antony Cedex, France, (13)Texas A&M University, Department of Geography, College Station, United States, (14)University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, (15)U.S. Geological Survey, East Hartford, CT, United States, (16)Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, United States, (17)U.S. Geological Survey, New England Water Science Center, Augusta, ME, United States, (18)Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany, (19)INSA Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, (20)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (21)Peking University, Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China, (22)UCLA, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, United States, (23)USGS, Baltimore, MD, United States, (24)Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection National Research Council CNR, Perugia, Italy, (25)University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, (26)Kansas State University, Geography and Geospatial Sciences, Manhattan, KS, United States, (27)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, United States, (28)Institute of Geodesy, Stuttgart, Germany
 
Seasonal Variability of Internal Tides in the Global Ocean (1150568)
Harpreet Kaur1, Maarten C Buijsman1 and Zhongxiang Zhao2, (1)University of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (2)University of Washington
 
Monitoring Arctic Lake Water Surface Elevation Using ICESat-2: Examining the Potential Of The Proposed SWOT Altimetry Mission (1170497)
Shamsudeen Yekeen1, Ben DeVries1, Aaron A Berg1 and Philip Marsh2, (1)University of Guelph, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, Guelph, ON, Canada, (2)Wilfrid Laurier University, Cold Regions Research Centre, Waterloo, ON, Canada
 
Harmonized Sentinel-1 SAR Global River geometry and Inundation database (1172071)
Chandana Gangodagamage1, Raphael Muamba Tshimanga2, Franz Josef Meyer3, Sam Lamont4, Joseph H Kennedy3, Charon M Birkett1, Jack Eggleston5, Frederick S Policelli6, Martina Ricko7, Michael T Durand8 and Michael F Jasinski9, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Kinshasa, Congo Basin Water Resources Research Center (CRREBaC) & Dept. Natural Resources Management, Kinshasa, Congo, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, (4)One Concern, Inc., Menlo Park, CA, United States, (5)U.S. Geological Survey, Hydrologic Remote Sensing Branch, Leetown, WV, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)KBR at NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (8)Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Surface Water and Ocean Topography Data Assimilation With Correlated Error Reduction (1174023)
Yu GAO, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Sarah T Gille, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States, Matthew R Mazloff, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States and Bruce D Cornuelle, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
Advances in Inverse Streamflow Routing: Estimating Runoff from Discharge Measurements (1176240)
Jacob Schaperow1, Dongyue Li2, Steven A Margulis1 and Dennis P Lettenmaier2, (1)UCLA, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, United States, (2)UCLA, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Find your SWOT data at NASA PO.DAAC: Rivers, Lakes, Estuaries, and Oceans, Oh My! (1182221)
Alireza Farahmand1, Catalina M Oaida2, Cassandra Nickles3, Phoebe Sham4, Celia Yun Ou2, Jack James McNelis5, Jinbo Wang6, Mike Gangl7 and Suresh Vannan8, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institude of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Instiute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (8)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Topographic Influences on Submesoscale Processes near Cape Mendocino, CA (1182531)
Basil Darby, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA, United States, Thomas Connolly, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, San Jose State University, Moss Landing, United States and Dustin Carroll, San José State University, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, United States
 
Plan for Assessing SWOT Discharge Accuracy (1183177)
Stephen Paul Coss1, Michael T Durand2, Colin J Gleason3, George H. Allen4 and Ryan Riggs4, (1)Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, United States, (2)Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States, (3)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States, (4)Texas A&M University, Department of Geography, College Station, United States
 
Get Ready for SWOT: the Status of the SWOT Oceanography Calibration and Validation Campaigns (1187537)
Jinbo Wang1, Lee-Lueng Fu1, Bruce Joseph Haines1, Andrew J. Lucas2, Matthias J Lankhorst2, Oscar Schofield3, Uwe Send2, Scott Stalin4, J. Thomas Farrar5 and Christian Meinig6, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States, (3)Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (4)Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, (5)Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (6)NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Harmonized SWOT A Priori Lake-River Database to Monitor Global Surface Water Dynamics (1189654)
Md. Safat Sikder1, Jida Wang1, George H. Allen2, Yongwei Sheng3, Dai Yamazaki4, Jean-François Crétaux5 and Tamlin Pavelsky6, (1)Kansas State University, Geography and Geospatial Sciences, Manhattan, KS, United States, (2)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States, (3)UCLA Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)The University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, Tokyo, Japan, (5)Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES), Laboratoire d'Études en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales (LEGOS), Toulouse, France, (6)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
 
SWOT Science and Applications in Deltas and Estuaries: Dealing with Tides. (1190896)
Marc Simard, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Pascal Matte, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Meteorological Research Division, Quebec, QC, Canada, Benoit Laignel, University of Rouen, Mont-Saint-Aignan Cedex, France, Alexandra Christensen, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, United States, Raphael Savelli, Pasadena, CA, UNITED STATES and Adriana Sofia Parra, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, United States
 
Diverse Utility of SWOT Water Extent, Elevation, and Backscatter Measurements (1200980)
Jessica V Fayne, University of Southern California, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Los Angeles, United States and Sarah W Cooley, University of Oregon, Eugene, United States
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