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Assessing the capabilities of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission for large lake water surface elevation monitoring under different wind conditions
Jean Bergeron
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Département de génie civil et de génie du bâtiment, Faculté de génie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, J1K 2R1, Canada
Gabriela Siles
Département de génie civil et de génie du bâtiment, Faculté de génie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, J1K 2R1, Canada
Robert Leconte
Département de génie civil et de génie du bâtiment, Faculté de génie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, J1K 2R1, Canada
Mélanie Trudel
Département de génie civil et de génie du bâtiment, Faculté de génie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, J1K 2R1, Canada
Damien Desroches
Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES), 31400 Toulouse, France
Daniel L. Peters
Watershed Hydrology and Ecology Research Division, Environment and
Climate Change Canada, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, V8W 3R4, Canada
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Andrew Ogilvie, Gilles Belaud, Sylvain Massuel, Mark Mulligan, Patrick Le Goulven, and Roger Calvez
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Short summary
We want to assess how well the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission will be able to provide information on lake surface water elevation and how much of an impact wind conditions (speed and direction) can have on these retrievals.
We want to assess how well the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission will...
