Drawing on fine-scale surface dynamics observed during a large drifter experiment in the Western Mediterranean Sea, a recent study assessed the quality of SWOT sea level measurements acquired during the 1-day repeat orbit phase. This work establishes a benchmark for extending SWOT sea level assessments to the global ocean.
The classroom activity Reading Ocean from Space helps students to explore how the SWOT satellite mission observes the ocean and freshwater systems, and to understand their role in climate science. It was developed by the Office for Climate education in partnership with CNES.
“La mélodie du tourbillon” is a musical poem inspired by research on eddies in the Mediterranean Sea. It was produced by Tomasi Record and released on the 3rd anniversary of the BioSWOT-Med campaign.
An adaptive, multidisciplinary sampling strategy across a fine-scale front in the North Balearic Sea revealed distinct phytoplankton communities within the front. Results underscore the role of fine-scale variability in maintaining community heterogeneity, suggesting that fronts may act as refuges for non-dominant phytoplankton groups in moderately energetic, oligotrophic conditions.
The animated video "Fabuleuse Rencontres" - currently available in French - focuses on some of the first scientific findings of the BioSWOT-Med campaign, which investigated what drives phytoplankton diversity at fine scales in the Mediterranean Sea.
A study published on Geophysical Research Letters shows that in the North Western Mediterranean Sea, fine-scale eddies can contribute to redistribution of nutrients across distinct scales, first by their accumulation deep inside the eddy and then through lateral diffusion outside it. With climate change, the oligotrophic conditions typical of the Mediterranean Sea are expected to expand in the global ocean and results from this work represents an important contribution in understanding the evolution of biogeochemical processes in the future.
Hydrologist using data assimilation algorithms of remote sensing imagery for flood modeling and forecasting.
Hydraulic research-engineer focusing on improving the modelling of urban rivers and flood risk protection.
A study published in the journal Nature Communications identifies a causal relationship between the occurrence of large storms in the Southern Ocean and, a few days later, bursts of microseisms with periods around 16 and 26 s, radiating from the Gulf of Guinea. The hidden link between these two phenomena are swells radiated from the storms and revealed in sea surface height maps by the SWOT satellite. Interview with Fabrice Ardhuin, SWOT project investigator and co-author of the paper.
PhD student at the crossroads of remote sensing, coastal hydrodynamics and numerical modelling.