Publications
This page lists publications for the past 3 months from members of the SWOT science team. Links are provided, if available. If you would like a copy of a colleague's paper, please contact the author.
Also see the American Geophysical Union special collection, "Science from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography Satellite Mission."
For older publications, please search the All Publications database.
July 2025
| Author(s) | Citation |
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| Buijsman, M. C., Abdulfatai, M., Arbic, B. K., Chassignet, E. P., Hiron, L., Shriver, J. F., et al. | Energetics of (super)tidal baroclinic modes in a realistically forced global ocean simulation., Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 130, e2025JC022460. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JC022460 |
| Chaudhary, A., Chander, S., Surisetty, A. K., Agrawal, R., Agarwal, N., Gupta, P. K., Rajkumar, Sharma, R., Sheshu, R.V., Bhaskar, T.V.S.U., & Rao, E. | Evaluation of SWOT Beta Geophysical Products in the Indian Region During CAL‑VAL Phase over the Land and Oceans, Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12524-025-02237-5 |
| Girard F., Kergoat L., Mainassara I., Wubda M., Dayangnéwendé Nikièma E., Abdourhamane Touré A., Renou J., Vayre M., Taburet N., Picot N., and Grippa M. | Performance of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission for Monitoring Small Lakes in West Africa, IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Observations Remote Sensing, vol. 18, pp. 14855–14869, 2025, doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2025.3570859. |
| Larnier K., Garambois P.-A, Emery C., Pujol L., Monnier J., Gal L., Paris A., Yesou H., Ledauphin, T., Calmant S. | Estimating channel parameters and discharge at river network scale using hydrological-hydraulic models, SWOT and multi-satellite data, Water Resources Research, 61, e2024WR038455. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024WR038455 |
| Ledauphin, T., Garambois, P.‐A., Larnier, K., Azzoni, M., Emery, C., Picot, N., Amzil, S., Fjørtoft, R., Maxant, J. and Yésou, H. | Assessing SWOT's Hydraulic Visibility on the Rhine: Precision Flow Lines and Slope-Based Flood Wave Propagation Signatures, Earth and Space Science, 12, e2025EA004309. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025EA004309 |
| Lichtman, I. D., P. S. Bell, C. Gommenginger, C. Banks, F. M. Calafat, J. Brown and S. D. P. Williams | Evaluating Water Levels From the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission in a Hyper-Tidal Coastal and Estuarine Environment, Earth and Space Science 12(7) 2025 |
| Moreira, D., Papa, F., Fassoni-Andrade, A., Fleischmann, A., Wongchuig, S., Paiva, R., et al. | Widespread and exceptional reduction in river water levels across the Amazon Basin during the 2023 extreme drought revealed by satellite altimetry and SWOT, Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2025GL116180. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL116180 |
June 2025
| Author(s) | Citation |
|---|---|
| Nencioli, F., Raynal, M., Ubelmann, C., Cadier, E., Prandi, P., DIbarboure, G. | An Altimeter-based Assessment of SWOT KaRIn Spectral Error Requirements, Advances in Space Research, In press, DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2025.05.073 |
| Patidar, G., Indu, J., Karmakar S. | Performance Assessment of Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission for WSE Measurement Across India, Geophysical Research Letters, 52(10), p.e2025GL115804. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL115804 |
| Patidar, G., Paris A.,Indu J., Karmakar S | How can SWOT derived water surface elevations help calibrating a distributed hydrological model?, Journal of Hydrology, 656, p.132968. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.132968 |
| Pieper, K.J., Beighley, R.E., Jones, C.N., Drewry, K., Jamshidi, R., Li, Y., Michael, L., Mize, W., Fowlkes, J., Blethen, A., Wang, Q.R., Bailey, E., Kane, M., Goforth, C., Kane, E., McCaully, R., King, C., Webb, A., Goggins, B., Duvvuri, B., Tang, T., Li, W. | Responding after Hurricane Helene: Rapidly estimating impacts to environmental health services in North Carolina, Environmental Science and Technology Letters, accepted. DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.5c00503 |
| Souza, A. N., Silvestri, S., Deck, K., Bischoff, T., Ferrari, R., Flierl, G. R. | Surface to Seafloor: A Generative AI Framework for Decoding the Ocean Interior State, arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.15308. https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15308 |
May 2025
| Author(s) | Citation |
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| Archer, M., Wang, J., Klein, P., Dibarboure, G., Fu, L-L | Wide-swath satellite altimetry unveils global submesoscale ocean dynamics, Nature 640, 691–696 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08722-8 |
| Fayne J.V., Smith L.C. | How Does Wind Influence Near-Nadir and Low-Incidence Ka-Band Radar Backscatter and Coherence from Small Inland Water Bodies?, Remote Sensing, 15(13), 3361. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15133361 |
| Fayne J.V., Smith L.C., Liao, T.-H., Pitcher L.H, Denbina, M., Chen, A.C. | Characterizing Near-Nadir and Low Incidence Ka-Band SAR Backscatter From Wet Surfaces and Diverse Land Covers, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 17, pp. 985-1006, 2024, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2023.3317502 |
| Gopalakrishnan, G., Trott, C. B., Cruz, E.,& Subrahmanyam, B | Understanding ocean surface response to Hurricane Idalia using SWOT altimetry in the Gulf of Mexico, Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2024GL114423. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL114423 |
| Juhl M.-C., Passaro M., Dettmering D. | Regional daily sea level maps from Multi-mission Altimetry using Space–time Window Kriging, Advances in Space Research, 10.1016/j.asr.2025.04.014, 2025 |
| Kacimi, S., Jaruwatanadilok, S., Kwok, R. | SWOT Observations Over Sea Ice: A First Look, Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2025GL116079. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL116079 |
| Smith, L.C., Fayne, J.V., Wang, B., Kyzivat, E.D., Gleason, C.J., Harlan, M.E., Langhorst, T., Feng, D., Pavelsky, T.M., Peters, D.L. | Peace-Athabasca Delta water surface elevations and slopes mapped from AirSWOT Ka-band InSAR, Remote Sensing Letters, 14:12, 1238-1250, https://doi.org/10.1080/2150704X.2023.2280464 |
| Thurman, H.R., Allen, G.H., Williams, B.A., Cerbelaud, A., David, C.H. | SWOT Captures Hydrologic Waves Traveling Down Rivers, Geophysical Research Letters, Volume52, Issue10, e2024GL113875, 10.1029/2024GL113875 |
| Wang, J., Pottier, C., Cazals, C., Battude, M., Sheng, Y., Song, C., Sikder, M.S., Yang, X., Ke, L., Delhoume, M., Gosset, M., Oliveira, R.R.A., Grippa, M., Girard, F., Allen, G.H., Xu, X., Zhu, X., Biancamaria, S., Smith, L.C., Crétaux, J.-F., and Pavelsky, T. | The Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission (SWOT) Prior Lake Database (PLD): Lake mask and operational auxiliaries, Water Resources Research, 61, e2023WR036896, doi:10.1029/2023WR036896 |
| Yu D., Deng X., Andersen O.B., Zhu H., Luo J. | A new method for determining geoid gradient components from SWOT wide-swath data for marine gravity field, Journal of Geodesy, 99(4), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-025-01950-w |