SWOT

Conceived as a major new tool for climate studies, the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission launched December 16th 2022. SWOT sea surface height measurements can help retrieve the dynamics of the upper ocean at an unprecedented O(10km) resolution. SWOT surface maps are expected to have a resolution roughly one order of magnitude finer than what is now available with conventional satellite altimetry. This improvement in resolution is expected to be groundbreaking for several key ocean questions, including the energy budget, the connection between surface and internal dynamics, biogeochemistry and biodiversity, and the dynamics at the ice margin.

Adopt-A-Crossover (AdAC) Consortium

The best way to exploit SWOT data is in synergy with in situ observations. Endorsed by CLIVAR in 2019, the SWOT Adopt-A-Crossover Consortium is an initiative of the SWOT Science Team to assist oceanographic in situ experiments relying on SWOT and to assure that SWOT data are interpreted and exploited in the best possible way. The Consortium is led by a Steering Group mostly from the SWOT Science Team but membership is open to anybody (see Apply). The Consortium focuses (but is not restricted to) ocean areas where the SWOT ascending and descending tracks cross, providing higher temporal resolution: the crossovers. The revisit frequency at crossovers is maximal (twice per day) during the six months of calibration and validation (CalVal) phase in 2022-2023. Three of these months (Avril-June 2023) will be scientifically exploitable. During this phase, the satellite flies on a 1-day-repeat orbit with enhanced temporal resolution (although sacrificing the spatial coverage).

Actions and support of the AdAC Consortium

The AdAC Consortium provides to anybody interested in ocean finescale experiments a direct link with the SWOT Science Team. The Consortium acts as a forum for sharing information on how to interpret future SWOT data and for designing SWOT-compliant experimental protocols. Members of the Consortium also have access to experimental, multisatellite, high resolution products that NASA and CNES have developed for matching the needs of experimental studies at SWOT scales. The Consortium is also the place to discuss and promote conference special sessions, journal special issues, and collaborations on ocean finescale experiments and new technologies. The Consortium does not provide financial support.

News

Postdoc position: exploring the Agulhas leakage and its variability

Postdoc position: Ocean biophysical interactions

First version of “Search SWOT passes” released

Welcome to Lloyd Izard, the new SWOT AdAC Data Officer

The new wave of oceanographers: Lloyd Izard

The new wave of oceanographers: Yann-Treden Tranchant

ACC-SMST blog: what instruments are being deployed during the campaign?

FaSt-SWOT blog: “From space to the Mediterranean: Chasing ocean currents”

ACC-SMST blog: Scientists voyage to the Southern Ocean to investigate how climate change impacts the planet’s strongest current

Marmara Sea and Black Sea blog: The Black Sea – Second cruise

SWOT Science Team Meeting

SWOT session at Ocean Sciences Meeting

SWOT orbit change update

SWOT orbit transition starting July 11th

Marmara Sea and Black Sea blog: the Black Sea campaign

Marmara Sea and Black Sea blog: The Marmara campaign

North West Pacific blog: four mooring arrays in the STCC region

SWOT keeping maneuver planned for June 16th

SWOT station keeping maneuver planned on the 2nd of June

Postdoc position: Developing new data-driven methods for inferring subsurface ocean transport from SWOT data

Bay de Veys blog: SWOT LiDAR flights in Normandy

BioSWOT-Med blog: A successful campaign under SWOT swath in the NW Mediterranean Sea

The new wave of oceanographers: Laura Giraud

BioSWOT-Med blog: How fine scales structure the distribution of top predators

BioSWOT-med blog: Measuring oxygen and community production

The new wave of oceanographers: Emily Waggoner

PhD Position: Contribution of SWOT satellite altimetry data to the understanding of coastal ocean dynamic processes

The Southern Ocean mixed layer and its boundary fluxes: fine-scale observational progress and future research priorities

BioSWOT-Med blog: Measuring nutrients

BioSWOT-Med blog: How to study phytoplankton diversity?

BioSWOT-Med blog: The flow cytometer

FaSt-SWOT blog: The tracking of the small eddy under SWOT swath continues

BioSWOT-Med blog: The exclusion experiment to measure zooplankton grazing

BioSWOT-Med blog: The ADCPs

BioSWOT-Med blog: Surface drifters and floats

BioSWOT-Med blog: The lagrangian experiments

BioSWOT-Med blog: The Zooglider

FaSt-SWOT blog: Tracking a small eddy under SWOT swath

BioSWOT-Med blog: Exploring the links between fine scale structures and zooplankton patchiness

BioSWOT-Med blog: How to study zooplankton diversity?

BioSWOT-Med blog: The FF-ADCP and the CTD

BioSWOT-Med blog: High frequency and precision to study nutrients concentration in the Mediterranean Sea

FaSt-SWOT blog: The FaSt-SWOT campaign starts today

CONWEST-DYCO blog: First scientific data and an Aurora borealis

BioSWOT-Med blog: Studying how ocean dynamics impact heat distribution and its evolution with climate change

The new wave of oceanographers: Alexandre Barboni

BioSWOT-Med blog: Seeking to uncover the drivers of plankton diversity and distribution in the Mediterranean Sea

The new wave of oceanographers: Bàrbara Barceló-Lllull

FaSt-SWOT blog: New Jupyther Notebook to design Sampling strategy using a Moving Vessel Profiler (MVP)

BioSWOT-Med blog: Trying to solve the Plankton Paradox in the Mediterranean Sea

For the first time in oceanography, the fine scale landscape of sea surface height is revealed to our eyes

BioSWOT-Med blog: The daily bulletin

C-SWOT-2023: Surveying a front with Lagrangian buoys and cytometer

BioSWOT-Med blog: Follow the Zooglider

The new wave of oceanographers: Sijing Shen

BioSWOT-Med blog: The zooglider for the BioSWOT-Med campaign is at sea!

C-SWOT 2023 blog: C-SWOT – WEMSWOT companion campaigns at the mid-term point

Recommendations for the design of in situ sampling strategies to reconstruct fine-scale ocean currents in the context of SWOT satellite mission

SWOTALIS blog: Exciting day for our biologists

C-SWOT 2023: Observing the water column with two measuring devices

SWOTALIS blog: Measuring dissipation…This is patience

C-SWOT-2023: Joining R/V Tethys II for common transects under SWOT swath

The new wave of oceanographers: Gwendal Marechal

Preliminary images of SWOT-derived sea surface height and sigma0 now available also for the Lofoten Basin and Abrolhos Banks

The new wave of oceanographers: Ali Johnson

BioSWOT-Med blog: The new ocean glider has arrived!

SWOTALIS blog: the Southwestern Tropical Pacific is calling!

QUICCHE blog: Round the southernmost tip off Africa

The new wave of oceanographers: Tesha Toolse

C-SWOT-2023: SeaSoar measurement aborted by a Mistral blow, but nice acoustic transect !

QUICCHE blog: What a truly beautiful place the ocean can be!

The new wave of oceanographers: Isabelle Giddy

QUICCHE blog: Land. This is ship.

C-SWOT-2023: Life onboard R/V L’Atalante

The new wave of oceanographers: Johan Edholm

SWOT reveals first stunning views

C-SWOT-2023: Sampling the Cassidaigne canyon with moorings

The new wave of oceanographers: Natalia Herrán

C-SWOT-2023 blog: Kick off for the C-SWOT campaign!

BioSWOT-Med blog: the Big Fish is ready!

QUICCHE blog: One week left and “there can be only one”…

Baie des Veys blog: the Cal/Val site in Normadie is set up and running

The new wave of oceanographers: Estel Font

QUICCHE blog: Analyzing MET and TSG data during the night-watch

Nominal restart of the main instrument of the SWOT satellite

BioSWOT-Med blog: First visit to the R/V l’Atalante

The new wave of oceanographers: Laurina Oms

QUICCHE blog: Mr squid

SWOT Science instrument is up and running: continues with commissioning

QUICCHE blog: The Wave Glider Deployment

QUICCHE blog: The campfire at night

The new wave of oceanographers: Margot Demol

QUICCHE blog: The Agulhas leakage

The new wave of oceanographers: Daocheng Yu

QUICCHE blog: The first deployment of the Wire Flyer

The new wave of oceanographers: Jen-Ping Pen

BioSWOT-Med blog: Arvor and Provor profilers for BioSWOT-Med campaign arrived at OGS

Baie de Veys and Raz Blanchard blog: The Raz Blanchard field site is all set up and running

QUICCHE blog: The first drifter array has been deployed

The new wave of oceanographers: Andrea Hay

Welcome to QUICCHE blog!

The new wave of oceanographers: Laura Ruiz-Etcheverry

BioSWOT-Med blog: Countdown to the BioSWOT-Med campaign

The new wave of oceanographers: Clément Vic

The new wave of oceanographers: Robin Rolland

The new wave of oceanographers: Rick de Kreij

The new wave of oceanographers: Anıl Akpınar

Dr. Luca Centurioni joins SWOT AdAC Steering Group

The new wave of oceanographers: Louise Rousselet

The new wave of oceanographers: Arne Bendinger

The new wave of oceanographers: Michaela Edwinson

The new wave of oceanographers: Peiran Yang

The new wave of oceanographers: Caroline Comby

SWOT delivers its first data

Interview – How will the timing of SWOT fast-sampling phase impact which ocean processes can be studied?

SWOT’s first echo over the ocean

Postdoctoral position on fine-scale ocean currents at IMEDEA

Travel around Earth as if you were on top of SWOT

SWOT unfolds itself in Space

SWOT launch now targeting Friday 16

SWOT launch scheduled for December 15, 2022

Welcome to the South China Sea and Western Pacific campaign in SWOT-AdAC

Observing System Simulation Experiments for the design of surveys at sea during SWOT fast sampling phase

SWOT took off from France to California

SWOT is ready to fly to the US

Postdoctoral Position: Internal Waves from in-situ and SWOT measurements

Postdoctoral Position: SWOT Sea Surface Height Analysis

PhD position study fine-scale ocean dynamics

Measuring vertical velocities with ADCPs in low-energy ocean

Welcome to Laurina Oms, new PhD student in the BIOSWOT-Med team

The FaSt-SWOT campaign has been approved

A cloud-based framework for inter-comparing submesoscale-permitting realistic ocean models and reduce carbon emissions

Finescale variability in salinity fronts in the northwest Atlantic reconstructed through Lagrangian techniques

Insights on the design of the sampling strategy of the SWOT-AdAC Cal/Val campaign 

Welcome to Louise Rousselet, the new SWOT-AdAC Science Officer

REGISTRATIONS NOW OPEN FOR FILACHANGE 2022 WORKSHOP

Stirring of sea-ice meltwater enhances submescale fronts in the Southern Ocean

Applications open for PhD thesis on Lagrangian study of fine-scale physical-biological-coupling in Marseille, France

Lanternfish concentrate along fine-scale structures in the open ocean

“Measuring ocean surface currents: S-MODE and prospects for satellite instruments” town hall at Ocean Sciences Meeting on February 24, 2022

The waltz of the phytoplankton in the Mediterranean Sea

Submesoscale fronts in the Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone and their responses to wind

SWOT Adopt-A-Crossover Consortium has been endorsed by CLIVAR