SWOT sampling

From a global or regional OGCM configuration, the software generates Sea Surface Height (SSH) on a 120~km wide swath at typically 1~km resolution. An illustration of outputs for a global ECCO (MITgcm) configuration is shown on Fig. 1.

FIG. 1: 5-day worth of SWOT simulated data in a global configuration with the science orbit.

• Interpolation of SSH
• Proposed SWOT orbits
• The SWOT swath