Data

SWOT ocean, hydrology, and coastal data are provided through NASA’s Physical Oceanography Distributed Data Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC). There you will find data release notes, user documentation, product lists, news pertaining to the data products, and more. Check out the SWOT Data User Handbook for detailed information on the data.

SWOT Data Products for Public Distribution

SWOT data is provided through the NASA Physical Oceanography Data Active Archive Center and Aviso data portal:

See NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission Data Release for an overview of the current data distribution.

Resources for getting started with SWOT Data

Earthdata Webinar on SWOT Data

Watch the recording to learn about Accessing Data for the World's Water with the SWOT Mission.
PODAAC Cookbook - SWOT Data Tutorials

SWOT Data Tutorials, Tools & Resources
SWOT Community GitHub

SWOT Community GitHub for contribution
Using HiTIDE to download SWOT Data

This tutorial demonstrates how to select, subset, and download KaRIn sea surface height data from the SWOT mission.
SWOT’s Beta Prevalidated Science Data Products Release

On December 7, 2023, PO.DAAC held an open office hours session with the participation of SWOT data users, SWOT experts, and PO.DAAC staff members.
Features of KaRIn Data that Users Should be Aware Of

Watch this presentation by Curtis Chen from the 10th SWOT Applications Meeting, 7-8 December 2023.
SWOT Science Data Products - User Handbook

This document for SWOT users is meant to give a relatively condensed, self-contained overview to help get started with SWOT data.