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River Network Routing and Discharge Partitioning on a Multichannel River Network Open

Elyssa L. Collins, Elizabeth H. Altenau, Tamlin M. Pavelsky, Cédric H. David, Augusto Getirana , et al. · 2025

The advent of global river network data products and river routing models (RRMs) has resulted in substantial improvements to our understanding of the quantity and movement of water in Earth's rivers. However, the majority of vector‐based g…

Merging Regional Climate Models and Remote Sensing Observations to Better Estimate Mountain Snow Water Equivalent Open

Jack Dechow, Michael Durand, Melissa L. Wrzesien, Jessica D. Lundquist, Karl Rittger , et al. · 2025

Integrating Information from Hydrologic Models and SWOT Remote Sensing Measurements to Estimate Discharge across River Networks Open

Michael Durand, Demián D. Gómez, Tamlin M. Pavelsky, Stephen Coss, Paul Bates , et al. · 2025

Evaluation using in-situ observations from national governments and Citizen Scientists suggests nadir altimeters can accurately measure water level changes regardless of lake area Open

Angélica María Gómez, Sylvain Biancamaria, Tamlin M. Pavelsky, Karina Nielsen, Grant Parkins , et al. · 2025

Water level and water level changes of lentic water bodies such as lakes, wetlands, and reservoirs are rarely available, despite the relevance of these to maintain ecosystems (e.g., by providing drinking water, food, and cultural activitie…

Satellite Requirements to Capture Water Propagation in Earth's Rivers Open

Arnaud Cerbelaud, Cédric H. David, Tamlin M. Pavelsky, Sylvain Biancamaria, Pierre‐André Garambois , et al. · 2025

The water in Earth's rivers propagates as waves through space and time across hydrographic networks. A detailed understanding of river dynamics globally is essential for achieving accurate knowledge of surface water storage and fluxes to s…

Estimating Daily Suspended Sediment Flux from Multiple Data Sources using Deep Learning Open

Theodore Langhorst, Konstantinos M. Andreadis, Xinchen He, Elisa Friedmann, John Gardner , et al. · 2025

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission (SWOT) Prior Lake Database (PLD): Lake mask and operational auxiliaries Open

Jida Wang, Claire Pottier, Cécile Cazals, Marjorie Battude, Yongwei Sheng , et al. · 2025

Mapping the world's inland surface waters: an upgrade to the Global Lakes and Wetlands Database (GLWD v2) Open

Bernhard Lehner, Mira Anand, Etienne Fluet‐Chouinard, Florence Tan, Filipe Aires , et al. · 2025

In recognition of the importance of inland waters, numerous datasets mapping their extents, types, or changes have been created using sources ranging from historical wetland maps to real-time satellite remote sensing. However, differences …

SWOT Water Surface Elevation in Herbaceous Wetlands of Florida's Everglades Open

Solomon Kica, Tamlin M. Pavelsky, Jessica V. Fayne, Brent A. Williams · 2025

Observing water level variations in wetlands is important for tracking global water and carbon cycles. The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission was launched to measure Earth's surface waters, but its performance in vegetated w…

Overlooked and extensive ghost forest formation across the US Atlantic coast Open

Henry C.H. Yeung, Tamlin M. Pavelsky, Chao Wang, Nate G. McDowell, R. E. Emanuel , et al. · 2025

Rising sea levels have driven widespread coastal tree die-off, forming large swaths of ghost forests. While reports of coastal forest loss are accumulating, its true severity and factors determining the underlying mortality risks remain po…

A First Look at River Discharge Estimation From SWOT Satellite Observations Open

Konstantinos M. Andreadis, Stephen Coss, Michael Durand, Colin J. Gleason, Travis Simmons , et al. · 2025

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite has the potential to transform global hydrologic science by offering simultaneous and synoptic estimates of river discharge and other hydraulic variables. Discharge is estimated from …

One‐Hundred Fundamental, Open Questions to Integrate Methodological Approaches in Lake Ice Research Open

Joshua Culpepper, Sapna Sharma, Grant Gunn, Madeline R. Magee, Michael F. Meyer , et al. · 2025

The rate of technological innovation within aquatic sciences outpaces the collective ability of individual scientists within the field to make appropriate use of those technologies. The process of in situ lake sampling remains the primary …

Bidirectional Translations Between Observational and Topography‐Based Hydrographic Data Sets: MERIT‐Basins and the SWOT River Database (SWORD) Open

Jeffrey Wade, Cédric H. David, Elizabeth H. Altenau, Elyssa L. Collins, Hind Oubanas , et al. · 2025

The recently launched Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission is expected to provide transformative observations of water surface elevation, width, and slope and produce derived estimates of discharge for global rivers along rive…

SWOT River Database (SWORD) Open

Elizabeth H. Altenau, Tamlin M. Pavelsky, Michael Durand, Xiao Yang, Renato Prata de Moraes Frasson , et al. · 2025

VERSION NOTES: v17 versus v17b "Type" change for 1662 reaches and associated nodes globally. Please reference the Product Description Document for the "Type" identifier definition. Updates to reach and node lengths and distance-from-outlet…

Interpretable Multi-Sensor Fusion of Optical and SAR Data for GEDI-Based Canopy Height Mapping in Southeastern North Carolina Open

Chao Wang, Conghe Song, Todd A. Schroeder, Curtis E. Woodcock, Tamlin M. Pavelsky , et al. · 2025

Accurately monitoring forest canopy height is crucial for sustainable forest management, particularly in southeastern North Carolina, USA, where dense forests and limited accessibility pose substantial challenges. This study presents an ex…

Monitoring Water From Space: An Illustration in Death Valley, California Open

Brett Buzzanga, B. D. Hamlington, David Bekaert, Tamlin M. Pavelsky, Alexander L. Handwerger , et al. · 2025

Climate change and human activity are dramatically reshaping how water is distributed on Earth. High quality observations and products that bridge the gap between low‐level data and actionable information are needed to support the understa…

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission (SWOT) Prior Lake Database (PLD): Lake Mask and Operational Auxiliaries Open

Jida Wang, Claire Pottier, Cécile Cazals, Marjorie Battude, Yongwei Sheng , et al. · 2025

Lakes are among the most prevalent and predominant water repositories on the Earth's land surface. A primary objective of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission is to monitor surface water elevation, area, and stor…

The May 2024 Flood Disaster in Southern Brazil: Causes, Impacts, and SWOT‐Based Volume Estimation Open

Iury T. Simoes‐Sousa, Carolina M.L. Camargo, Juliana Távora, Agata Piffer‐Braga, J. Thomas Farrar , et al. · 2025

In May 2024, southern Brazil experienced a severe flood that caused widespread devastation, particularly in the metropolitan area of Porto Alegre. This disaster resulted from a rare combination of atmospheric conditions: a heatwave stalled…

The May 2024 Flood Disaster in Southern Brazil: Causes, Impacts, and SWOT‐Based Volume Estimation Open

Iury T. Simoes‐Sousa, Carolina M.L. Camargo, Juliana Távora, Agata Piffer‐Braga, J. Thomas Farrar , et al. · 2025

In May 2024, southern Brazil experienced a severe flood that caused widespread devastation, particularly in the metropolitan area of Porto Alegre. This disaster resulted from a rare combination of atmospheric conditions: a heatwave stalled…

Remote sensing of multitemporal functional lake-to-channel connectivity and implications for water movement through the Mackenzie River Delta, Canada Open

Wayana Dolan, Tamlin M. Pavelsky, Anastasia Piliouras · 2025

Dataset representing functional lake-to-channel connectivity in the Mackenzie Delta, NWT, Canada between 1984 and 2022 (final.class_20230324.feather), developed using Landsat 5, 7, and 9 optical imagery. Data in folders corresponds to data…

Progress towards satellite requirements to capture water propagation in Earth's rivers Open

Arnaud Cerbelaud, Cédric H. David, Tamlin M. Pavelsky, Sylvain Biancamaria, Pierre‐André Garambois , et al. · 2025

Improving Satellite Imagery Masking Using Multitask and Transfer Learning Open

Rangel Daroya, Luísa Vieira Lucchese, Travis Simmons, Punwath Prum, Tamlin M. Pavelsky , et al. · 2025

Many remote sensing applications require masking of pixels in satellite imagery for further analysis. For instance, estimating water quality variables such as suspended sediment concentration (SSC) requires isolating pixels depicting water…

Event-Based Serverless Environmental Modeling on the Cloud: A Pedagogical Guide and River Case Study Open

Manu Tom, Cédric H. David, Kevin M. Marlis, Paul Zimdars, Q. Bonassies , et al. · 2025

Improving Satellite Imagery Masking using Multi-task and Transfer Learning Open

Rangel Daroya, Luísa Vieira Lucchese, Travis Simmons, Punwath Prum, Tamlin M. Pavelsky , et al. · 2024

Many remote sensing applications employ masking of pixels in satellite imagery for subsequent measurements. For example, estimating water quality variables, such as Suspended Sediment Concentration (SSC) requires isolating pixels depicting…

Lake-TopoCat: A global Lake drainage Topology and Catchment database Open

Md. Safat Sikder, Jida Wang, George H. Allen, Yongwei Sheng, Dai Yamazaki , et al. · 2024

Contact: Md Safat Sikder ([email protected]), Jida Wang ([email protected]) Citation If you use Lake-TopoCat, please cite the following paper: Sikder, M. S., Wang, J., Allen, G. H., Sheng, Y., Yamazaki, D., Song, C., Ding, M., Crétaux…

The Potential of Hydrogeodesy to Address Water‐Related and Sustainability Challenges Open

Fernando Jaramillo, Saeid Aminjafari, Pascal Castellazzi, Ayan Santos Fleischmann, Etienne Fluet‐Chouinard , et al. · 2024

Increasing climatic and human pressures are changing the world's water resources and hydrological processes at unprecedented rates. Understanding these changes requires comprehensive monitoring of water resources. Hydrogeodesy, the science…

The Potential of Hydrogeodesy to Address Water‐Related and Sustainability Challenges Open

Fernando Jaramillo, Saeid Aminjafari, Pascal Castellazzi, Ayan Santos Fleischmann, Etienne Fluet‐Chouinard , et al. · 2024

Increasing climatic and human pressures are changing the world's water resources and hydrological processes at unprecedented rates. Understanding these changes requires comprehensive monitoring of water resources. Hydrogeodesy, the science…

The Global Dam Watch database of river barrier and reservoir information for large-scale applications Open

Bernhard Lehner, Penny Beames, Mark Mulligan, Christiane Zarfl, Luca De Felice , et al. · 2024

There are millions of river barriers worldwide, ranging from wooden locks to concrete dams, many of which form associated impoundments to store water in small ponds or large reservoirs. Besides their benefits, there is growing recognition …

Mapping the world’s inland surface waters: an update to the Global Lakes and Wetlands Database (GLWD v2) Open

Bernhard Lehner, Mira Anand, Etienne Fluet‐Chouinard, Florence Tan, Filipe Aires , et al. · 2024

In recognition of the importance of inland waters, numerous datasets mapping their extents, types, or changes have been created using sources ranging from historical wetland maps to real-time satellite remote sensing. However, differences …

Longitudinal Recovery of Suspended Sediment Downstream of Large Dams in the US Open

Rajaram Prajapati, John Gardner, Tamlin M. Pavelsky, Rocky Talchabhadel · 2024

Dams disrupt the natural flow of water and sediment along rivers. Reservoirs trap a significant amount of sediment, which substantially alters downstream hydrology, channel morphology, and sediment transport capacity. The longitudinal reco…

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