WHOI PO
Matthew Archer, NASA JPL - The Promise and Pitfalls of SWOT for Physical Oceanography
| Date |
Time |
Location |
| July 15th, 2025 |
3:05pm-4:05pm |
Clark 507 |
The speaker will be remote, however a seminar gathering will be held in Clark 507.
Title: The promise and pitfalls of SWOT for physical oceanography
Abstract: SWOT has now been collecting scientific data for over two years and has exceeded expectations for signal-to-noise ratio, such that ocean phenomena as small as 1 km are observable at certain times and locations. In recent months, publications have proliferated, with studies of eddies, fronts, internal and surface waves, air-sea interaction, tides, geodesy, and more. In this talk I will present recent and ongoing work at JPL using SWOT to explore submesoscale ocean phenomena, including eddies, internal solitary waves and surface waves. I’ll also discuss challenges that arise when using SWOT data due to sampling limitations and measurement errors and speculate what research SWOT will enable if these limitations can be mitigated. The aim of this talk is to show what SWOT is capable of, point to some pitfalls to be aware of, and motivate anyone considering it to utilize this new and exciting dataset!