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TI Global Observations of Fine-Scale Ocean Surface Topography With the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission
BT 
AF Morrow, Rosemary
   Fu, Lee-Lueng
   ARDHUIN, Fabrice
   Benkiran, Mounir
   Chapron, Bertrand
   Cosme, Emmanuel
   d’Ovidio, Francesco
   Farrar, J. Thomas
   Gille, Sarah T.
   Lapeyre, Guillaume
   LE TRAON, Pierre-Yves
   Pascual, Ananda
   Ponte, Aurelien
   Qiu, Bo
   Rascle, Nicolas
   Ubelmann, Clement
   Wang, Jinbo
   Zaron, Edward D.
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C1 Centre de Topographie des Océans et de l’Hydrosphère, Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiale, CNRS, CNES, IRD, Université Toulouse III, Toulouse, France
   Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
   Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – Ifremer, Plouzané, France
   Mercator Ocean, Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France
   Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
   Sorbonne Université, CNRS, IRD, MNHN, Laboratoire d’Océanographie et du Climat: Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN-IPSL), Paris, France
   Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
   Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
   Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD-IPSL), CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
   IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados, Esporles, Spain
   Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States
   Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Ensenada, Mexico
   CLS Space Oceanography, Collecte Localisation Satellites, Toulouse, France
   Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States
C2 OBSERV MIDI PYRENEES, FRANCE
   JET PROP LAB, USA
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   MERCATOR OCEAN, FRANCE
   UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES, FRANCE
   UNIV PARIS 06, FRANCE
   WHOI, USA
   UNIV CALIF SAN DIEGO, USA
   CNRS, FRANCE
   IMEDEA, SPAIN
   UNIV HAWAII, USA
   CICESE, MEXICO
   CLS, FRANCE
   UNIV PORTLAND STATE, USA
   CNRS, FRANCE
SI BREST
   MERCATOR
SE PDG-ODE-LOPS-SIAM
   PDG-ODE
   PDG-ODE-LOPS-OH
UM LOPS
IN WOS Ifremer UMR
   WOS Cotutelle UMR
   DOAJ
   copubli-france
   copubli-europe
   copubli-univ-france
   copubli-int-hors-europe
   copubli-sud
IF 5.247
TC 201
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00495/60685/64181.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;ocean mesoscale circulation;satellite altimetry;SAR-interferometry;tides and internal tides;calibration-validation
AB The future international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission, planned for launch in 2021, will make high-resolution 2D observations of sea-surface height using SAR radar interferometric techniques. SWOT will map the global and coastal oceans up to 77.6∘ latitude every 21 days over a swath of 120 km (20 km nadir gap). Today’s 2D mapped altimeter data can resolve ocean scales of 150 km wavelength whereas the SWOT measurement will extend our 2D observations down to 15–30 km, depending on sea state. SWOT will offer new opportunities to observe the oceanic dynamic processes at scales that are important in the generation and dissipation of kinetic energy in the ocean, and that facilitate the exchange of energy between the ocean interior and the upper layer. The active vertical exchanges linked to these scales have impacts on the local and global budgets of heat and carbon, and on nutrients for biogeochemical cycles. This review paper highlights the issues being addressed by the SWOT science community to understand SWOT’s very precise sea surface height (SSH)/surface pressure observations, and it explores how SWOT data will be combined with other satellite and in situ data and models to better understand the upper ocean 4D circulation (x, y, z, t) over the next decade. SWOT will provide unprecedented 2D ocean SSH observations down to 15–30 km in wavelength, which encompasses the scales of “balanced” geostrophic eddy motions, high-frequency internal tides and internal waves. This presents both a challenge in reconstructing the 4D upper ocean circulation, or in the assimilation of SSH in models, but also an opportunity to have global observations of the 2D structure of these phenomena, and to learn more about their interactions. At these small scales, ocean dynamics evolve rapidly, and combining SWOT 2D SSH data with other satellite or in situ data with different space-time coverage is also a challenge. SWOT’s new technology will be a forerunner for the future altimetric observing system, and so advancing on these issues today will pave the way for our future. 
PY 2019
PD MAY
SO Frontiers In Marine Science
SN 2296-7745
PU Frontiers Media SA
VL 6
IS 232
UT 000467921000001
DI 10.3389/fmars.2019.00232
ID 60685
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