NASA’s SWOT Satellite Reveals Big Impact of Small Ocean Currents and Waves on Ocean

NASA’s SWOT Satellite Reveals Big Impact of Small Ocean Currents and Waves on Ocean

#news #newstoday #tech #technews #latestnews #techupdates #newsupdates Small-scale ocean features once overlooked are now seen as powerful forces shaping Earth’s climate and marine life. Developed in association with the French space agency CNES, the SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) satellite caught two-dimensional images of submesoscale waves and eddies about…

SWOT Satellite Observes Seismic Tsunami Event in Greenland’s Dickson Fjord

SWOT Satellite Observes Seismic Tsunami Event in Greenland’s Dickson Fjord

An unprecedented nine-day tsunami following a significant rockslide in Greenland’s Dickson Fjord was recently recorded by the international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, a collaborative mission by NASA and France’s Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES). The event, which took place in September 2023, saw a unique pattern of…