2024 Images of the Month

Satellite altimetry can detect icebergs under the satellites' tracks. This can be used to help in maritime security at latitudes where they can be a problem.

Swot observed long-lived seiche waves from a landslide in a fjord, which provoked a 9-day-long, global seismic signal

One of the unexpected outputs of Swot is that storm-generated swells are clearly seen in KaRIn Sea Surface Height, even those with amplitude as small as 3 cm.

The high resolution and wide swath of the SWOT's main instrument KaRIn enables the observation of eddies ten times smaller than previous altimetry missions

Internal waves can be generated when water is going through a Strait, such as Gibraltar. Swot is observing them.

The last release of FES tidal solution, FES2022b, is now available and shows a great improvement compared to previous version. 

El Niño began to dwindle, and the next question is: what's next? El Niño, neutral or La Niña?

A single Swot KaRIn altimeter swath can produce marine gravity data of a quality comparable to that obtained over 20 years of conventional nadir altimetry.

The Mean Sea Surface is one of the reference surfaces computed for, and from, altimetry. Including the geoid, it comprises the effect of undersea reliefs on the gravity field

Swot observes ice leads and the SSH in them, thus enabling to retrieve sea ice freeboard

Marine animals such as sea turtles are subject to currents, tidal ones included. Their knowledge can help in protecting those endangered species

Internal tides surface signature can reach several centimeters in some locations. Swot enables to observe them.