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.
May 2025
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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 |
April 2025
| Author(s) | Citation |
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| Benveniste, J., A. Cazenave, S. Vignudelli, L. Fenoglio-Marc, R. Shah, R. Almar, O. Andersen, F. Birol, P. Bonnefond, J. Bouffard, F. Calafat, E. Cardellach, P. Cipollini, G. Le Cozannet, C. Dufau, M. J. Fernandes, F. Frappart, J. Garrison, C. Gommenginger, G. Han, J. L. Høyer, V. Kourafalou, E. Leuliette, Z. Li, H. Loisel, K. S. Madsen, M. Marcos, A. Melet, B. Meyssignac, A. Pascual, M. Passaro, S. Ribó, R. Scharroo, Y. T. Song, S. Speich, J. Wilkin, P. Woodworth, G. Wöppelmann. | Requirements for a Coastal Hazards Observing System, Frontier in Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00348.2019 |
| De Mey-Frémaux, P., N. Ayoub, A. Barth, R. Brewin, G. Charria, F. Campuzano, S. Ciavatta, M. Cirano, C. A. Edwards, I. Federico, S. Gao, I. Garcia Hermosa, M. Garcia Sotillo, H. Hewitt, L. Robert Hole, J. Holt, R. King, V. Kourafalou, Y. Lu, B. Mourre, A. Pascual, J. Staneva, E. V. Stanev, H. Wang, X. Zhu. | Model-Observations Synergy in the Coastal Ocean, Frontier in Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00436. 2019 |
| D'Ovidio, F., A. Pascual, J. Wang, A. Doglioli, Z. Jing, S. Moreau, G. Gregori, S. Swart, S. Speich, F. Cyr, B. Legresy, Y.Chao, L. Fu, R. A. Morrow. | Frontiers in fine scale in-situ studies: opportunities during the SWOT fast sampling phase, Frontiers in Marine Science, section Ocean Observation. |
| Esselborn, S.; Schöne, T.; Dobslaw, H.; Sulzbach, R. | The 2023 Major Baltic Inflow Event Observed by Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) and Nadir Altimetry, Remote Sensing. 2025; 17(7):1289. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17071289 |
| McQuillan, K.A., Allen, G.H., Fayne, J., Gao, H., Wang, J. | Estimating wind direction and wind speed over lakes with SWOT and Sentinel-1 satellite observations, Earth and Space Science, Volume 12, Issue 3, DOI: 10.1029/2024EA003971. |
| Morrow, R. L-L. Fu, F. Ardhuin, M. Benkiran, B. Chapron, E. Cosme, F. d’Ovidio, J. Thomas Farrar, S.T. Gille, G. Lapeyre, P-Y Le Traon, A. Pascual, A. Ponte, B. Qiu, N. Rascle, C. Ubelmann, J. Wang, E. D. Zaron. | Global Observations of Fine-Scale Ocean Surface Topography with the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission, Frontiers in Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00232. 2019. |
| Wang, B., Smith, L.C. | Remote Sensing of Discharge Ratios at River Channel Bifurcations, Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2024GL114045. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL114045. |
March 2025
| Author(s) | Citation |
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| Girard, F., Kergoat , L., Nikiema, H., Wubda, M., Yonaba, R., Fowé, T. , Abdourhamane Touré, A. , Mainassara, I. , de Fleury, M., and Grippa , M. | Comparison of methods to derive the height-area relationship of shallow lakes in West Africa usng remote sensing, Water Resources Research, 61, doi:10.1029/2024WR037411. |
| Kupavõh, A., Delpeche-Ellmann, N., Ellmann, A., Soomere, T. | Examining the Performance of Satellite Altimetry (SWOT) Sea Level Data in the Coastal Areas of the Baltic Sea, Journal of Coastal Research, (2024) 113 (sp1), 534−538. doi: 10.2112/JCR-SI113-105.1. |
| Simoes-Sousa, I.T., Camargo, C.M., Tavora, J., Piffer-Braga, A., Farrar, J.T., Pavelsky, T.M. | The May 2024 Flood Disaster in Southern Brazil: Causes, Impacts, and SWOT-Based Volume Estimation, Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2024GL112442. doi: 10.1029/2024GL112442 |