OS51A:
Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission: Oceanography, Hydrology, and Their Interaction at the Estuaries I


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Session ID#: 57607

Session Description:
SWOT is a satellite mission under development by NASA, CNES (France), the CSA (Canada), and the UKSA (UK) that will use radar interferometry to measure water elevation over both the ocean and inland waters with coverage between the 77.6 degree latitudes every 21 days. The sea surface height measurement will have resolution ~20 km, depending on the season and location, allowing the study of the two-dimensional structure of small-scale ocean circulation. Over land, SWOT will detect lakes exceeding 250 m2 and rivers wider than 100 m, with 10 cm height accuracy averaged over 1 km2, allowing the study of water storage variations and discharge. The data over land and near-shore coastal oceans will have resolution ~ 100 m, allowing the study of the dynamics of the interaction of rivers with coastal ocean processes with wide-ranging societal applications. Papers addressing all the aspects of anticipated mission science and applications are welcomed.
Primary Convener:  Lee-Lueng Fu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
Conveners:  Tamlin Pavelsky1, Jean-Francois Cretaux2 and Rosemary Morrow2, (1)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States(2)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France
Primary Liaison:  Lee-Lueng Fu, JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States
Chairs:  Tamlin Pavelsky, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Jean-Francois Cretaux, CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France
OSPA Liaison:  Tamlin Pavelsky, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Co-Organized with:
Ocean Sciences, and Hydrology

Cross-Listed:
  • H - Hydrology

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

1845 Limnology [HYDROLOGY]
1856 River channels [HYDROLOGY]
4520 Eddies and mesoscale processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4544 Internal and inertial waves [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

What Will SWOT Measure in World’s Deltas and Estuaries? (Invited) (361309)
Marc Simard, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Benoit Laignel, University of Rouen, Mont-Saint-Aignan Cedex, France, Michael W Denbina, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Tom Van der Stocken, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Ke Liu, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia, Antoine Soloy, Normandie Univ, UNIROUEN, UNICAEN, CNRS, M2C, Rouen, France, J. Toby Minear, University of Colorado, Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, United States, Tamlin Pavelsky, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Alexandra Christensen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Suborbital Radar Science and Engineering, Pasadena, United States
Assessing the Potential of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission for Reservoir Monitoring in the Mekong River Basin (414853)
Matthew Bonnema, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States and Faisal Hossain, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, Seattle, United States
Mapping temporal changes in water surface elevation and storage across Arctic-Boreal rivers, lakes and wetlands with AirSWOT airborne interferometric synthetic aperture radar images (415561)
Laurence C Smith, Brown University, Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES); Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (DEEPS), Providence, RI, United States, Lincoln H H Pitcher, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, Tamlin Pavelsky, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Jessica V Fayne, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Sarah W Cooley, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States and Simon Topp, United States Geological Survey, Remote, United States
How Well Will the Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission Measure Water Surface Heights and Slopes in Complex Terrain? (438757)
Renato P. M. Frasson1, Michael T Durand2, Tamlin Pavelsky3, Curtis W. Chen4, Brent A Williams1, Alexander Fore1 and Xiao Yang5, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (2)Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States, (3)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, United States
River discharge estimation in ungauged basins using multi-missions variational data assimilation (378134)
Hind Oubanas1, Igor Gejadze2, Pierre-Olivier Malaterre2, Félix Billaud3, Alessio Domeneghetti4, Mohammad J. Tourian5 and Michael T Durand6, (1)IRSTEA, Antony Cedex, France, (2)IRSTEA Montpellier, Montpellier, France, (3)Irstea, Montpellier, France, (4)University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, (5)Institute of Geodesy, Stuttgart, Germany, (6)Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States
A first estimate of the expected distribution of SWOT river discharge accuracy (452629)
Michael T Durand1, Renato P. M. Frasson2, Stephen Tuozzolo1, Colin J Gleason3, PierreAndré Garambois4 and Pierre-Olivier Malaterre5, (1)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States, (4)INRAE, RECOVER, Aix-en-Provence, France, (5)IRSTEA Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Combining big-data remote sensing, AMHG, and river routing to estimate daily discharge over an entire river network: a SWOT template (364100)
Colin J Gleason, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States, Mark Hagemann, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States, Edward Beighley, Northeastern University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, United States, Dr. George H. Allen, PhD, Virginia Tech, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States and Tamlin Pavelsky, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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