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.

March 2025

Author(s) Citation
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

February 2025

Author(s) Citation
Gille, S. T., Y. Gao, B. D. Cornuelle, and M. R. Mazloff. SWOT Data Assimilation with Correlated Error Reduction: Fitting Model and Error Together, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., doi: 10.1175/JTECH-D-24-0062.1, 2025
Jacobs, G., Joseph D’Addezio, Brent Bartels SWOT Cross-Track Error Characteristics Estimated From Observations, JGR Ocean, doi: 10.1029/2024JC021535
Laipelt, L., de Paiva, R. C. D., Fan, F. M., Collischonn, W., Papa, F., & Ruhoff, A. SWOT reveals how the 2024 disastrous flood in South Brazil was intensified by increased water slope and wind forcing, Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2024GL111287, doi: 10.1029/2024GL111287, 2025
Laloue A., Schaeffer P., Pujol M.-I., Veillard P., Andersen O., Sandwell D., Delepoulle A., Dibarboure G., Faugère Y. Merging Recent Mean Sea Surface Into a 2023 Hybrid Model (From Scripps, DTU, CLS, and CNES), Earth and Space Science, volume 12, issue 2, 2025, doi:10.1029/2024EA003836
Rai, S., Farrar, J.T. & Aluie, H. Atmospheric wind energization of ocean weather, Nature Communications 16, 1172 (2025). doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-56310-1
Schaeffer P., Pujol M.-I., Veillard P., Faugère Y., Dagneaux Q., Dibarboure G., Picot N. The CNES CLS 2022 Mean Sea Surface: Short Wavelength Improvements from CryoSat-2 and SARAL/AltiKa High-Sampled Altimeter Data, Remote Sens. 2023, 15(11), 2910; doi:10.3390/rs15112910

January 2025

Author(s) Citation
Feng, D., Gleason C.J. More flow upstream and less flow downstream: the changing form and function of global rivers, DOI: 10.1126/science.adl5728
Getirana, A., Kumar, S., Bates, P., Boone, A., Lettenmaier, D., Munier, S. The SWOT mission will reshaper our understanding of the global terrestrial water cycle, Nature Water 2, 1139–1142 (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s44221-024-00352-0
Mazaleyrat, E., Tran, N., Amarouche, L., Vandemark, D., Feng, H., Dibarboure, G., Bignalet-Cazalet, F. Analysis of High-Frequency Sea-State Variability Using SWOT Nadir Measurements and Application to Altimeter Sea State Bias Modelling, Remote Sensing 2024, 16(23), 4361. doi: 10.3390/rs16234361
Vinogradova, N.T., Pavelsky, T.M., Farrar, J.T., Hossain, F. and Fu, L. A new look at Earth’s water and energy with SWOT., Nature Water 3, 27–37 (2025). doi: 10.1038/s44221-024-00372-w
Yu, Y., Sandwell, D. T., Dibarboure, G. Abyssal marine tectonics from the SWOT mission, Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.ads4472