Connecting Surface Observations to the Ocean Interior: Results from Field Campaigns for SWOT Validation in the California Current and the Gulf Stream

Jinbo Wang1, Lee-Lueng Fu2, Bruce Joseph Haines2, Luke Kachelein2, Babette Christelle Tchonang2, Allison Ho2, Drew J. Lucas3, Uwe Send3, Matthias J Lankhorst3, Amy Frances Waterhouse3, J. Thomas Farrar4, Magdalena Andres5, Robert E Todd6, Scott Stalin7, Oscar Schofield8, Harvey Seim9, Mike Muglia10 and Teresa Updyke11, (1)Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States, (4)Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, United States, (5)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States, (6)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (7)NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, United States, (8)Rutgers University, Center of Ocean Observing Leadership, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, New Brunswick, United States, (9)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Earth, Marine, and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (10)University of North Carolina Coastal Studies Insitute, Wanchese, United States, (11)Old Dominion University, CCPO, Norfolk, United States