OS52B:
Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission: Oceanography, Hydrology, and Their Interaction at the Estuaries II


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Session ID#: 57613

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:  Rosemary Morrow1, Jean-Francois Cretaux1 and Tamlin Pavelsky2, (1)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France(2)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lee-Lueng Fu, JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States
Chairs:  Lee-Lueng Fu, JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States and Rosemary Morrow, CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France
OSPA Liaison:  Rosemary Morrow, CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France
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:

The SWOT satellite in the estuaries and coastal zones (Invited) (355993)
Benoit Laignel, University of Rouen, Mont-Saint-Aignan Cedex, France
On the spatial resolution of the future SWOT SSH measurements (370923)
Jinbo Wang1, Lee-Lueng Fu2, Hector S Torres3, Shuiming Chen4, Bo Qiu5 and Dimitris Menemenlis2, (1)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (5)Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, United States
Evidence of Altimetric SSH slope changes potentially induced by IGW (430547)
Oscar Vergara, Laboratoire d`Etudes en Geophysique et Oceanographie Spatiale (LEGOS)/IRD, Toulouse, France, Rosemary Morrow, CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, Marie-Isabelle Pujol, CLS Collecte Localisation Satellite, Ramonville Saint Agne, France, Gérald Dibarboure, CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse, France and Clement Ubelmann, CLS Collecte Localisation Satellites, Toulouse, France
Reconstructing 3-Dimensional Upper Ocean Circulation based on SWOT high-resolution SSH measurements (420098)
Bo Qiu1, Shuiming Chen2, Jinbo Wang3, Lee-Lueng Fu3, Patrice Klein4 and Dimitris Menemenlis3, (1)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (4)Cnrs/Ifremer/LOPS, Plouzané, France
High-frequency and high-wavenumber variability in the California Current: Evaluating model requirements for SWOT assimilation (437087)
Prof. Sarah T Gille, PhD1, Matthew R Mazloff1, Jinbo Wang2, Teresa K Chereskin3, Dimitris Menemenlis2, Marcello Passaro4 and Cesar B Rocha5, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)SIO/UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States, (4)Technical University of Munich, Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut (DGFI-TUM), Munich, Germany, (5)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States
Exploiting the synergy between future SWOT altimetry and doppler current observations to reconstruct the Ocean surface dynamics (434931)
Clement Ubelmann, CLS Collecte Localisation Satellites, Plouzané, France, Gérald Dibarboure, CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse, France and Marie-Helene Rio, CLS, Toulouse, France
Detecting Non-stationary Internal Tides in the California Current System: A Case Study for SWOT (426188)
Luke Kachelein1, Bruce D Cornuelle2, Prof. Sarah T Gille, PhD3, Florent Lyard4, Matthew R Mazloff3 and Dr. Eric J Terrill, Ph.D.5, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (2)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, United States, (4)LEGOS, Toulouse, France, (5)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States
Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission retrievals in the ice-covered polar oceans (439857)
Thomas W. K. Armitage, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Ron Kwok, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States

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