Reposted by ML Earth Sciences
Our story last month in @science.org talked about how the SWOT satellite is radically improving our view of global river behavior, while challenging hydrology models.
This new study seems a great example of how its data is now improving these models.
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SWOT‐Fitted River Bathymetry for Global Hydrodynamic Models
Iterative SWOT-fitted bathymetry cuts global median water surface elevation (WSE) bias from 3.10 to 0.18 m in two runs
Global median flood-wave timing is preserved (median r = 0.38); modest varia...