Publications

Iquitos River

The SWOT mission continues to grow its publication base. The earlier publications focus on water cycle science and water management issues, whereas the more recent publications examine specific issues such as estimating discharge using data assimilation. Other publications provide information on the effectiveness of existing methods for estimating discharge from space and how SWOT will make significant improvements.

• 11. Smith, L.C. and T.M. Pavelsky, Estimation of river discharge, propagation speed, and hydraulic geometry from space: Lena River, Siberia, Water Resources Research, VOL. 44, W03427, doi:10.1029/2007WR006133, 2008
• 10. Andreadis, K.A., E.A. Clark, D.P. Lettenmaier, and D.E. Alsdorf, Prospects for river discharge and depth estimation through assimilation of swath-altimetry into a raster-based hydrodynamics model, Geophysical Research Ltrs., v34, L10403, doi:10.1029/2007GL029721, 2007
• 9. Alsdorf, D., P. Bates, J. Melack, M. Wilson, and T. Dunne, Spatial and temporal complexity of the Amazon flood measured from space, Geophysical Research Letters, v34, L08402, doi: 10.1029/2007GL029447, 2007
• 8. Alsdorf, D., E. Rodriguez, and D. Lettenmaier, Measuring surface water from space, Reviews of Geophysics, v45, n2, RG2002, doi: 10.1029/2006RG000197, 2007
• 7. Alsdorf, Fu, Mognard, Cazenave, Rodriguez, Chelton, and Lettenmaier, Measuring global oceans and terrestrial freshwater from space, Eos, Transactions, AGU, v88, n24, p253, 2007
• 6. Kiel, B., D. Alsdorf, and G. LeFavour, Capability of SRTM C and X Band DEM Data to Measure Water Elevations in Ohio and the Amazon, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, (SRTM Special Issue) v. 72, no. 3, pp. 313-320, 2006
• 5. LeFavour, G. and D. Alsdorf, Water slope and discharge in the Amazon River estimated using the shuttle radar topography mission digital elevation model, Geophysical Researth Letters, v32, L17404, doi:10.1029/2005GL023836, 2005
• 4. Alsdorf, D.E., and E. Rodriguez, WatER: The Water Elevation Recovery Satellite Mission, First Mission Document for the WatER Mission, April 5, 2005
• 3. Alsdorf, D., E. Rodriguez, D. Lettenmaier, and J. Famiglietti, WatER: The Water Elevation Recovery satellite mission, response to the National Research Council Decadal Survey Request for Information, May 13, 2005.
• 2. Alsdorf, D., D. Lettenmaier, C. Vörösmarty, and the NASA Surface Water Working Group, The need for global, satellite-based observations of terrestrial surface waters, EOS Transactions of AGU, 84, 269, 275-276, 2003.
• 1. Alsdorf, D.E., and D.P. Lettenmaier, Tracking fresh water from space, Science, 301, 1485-1488, 2003.