March 4, 2026
SES Professor Mike Durand uses new satellite data to get first estimate of global river storage
Sunlight glints off one of the solar panels of the SWOT satellite in this artist’s concept. The antennas of the mission’s key instrument — the Ka-band Radar Interferometer (KaRIn) — collect data along a swath 30 miles (50 kilometers) wide on either side of the satellite.Credit: CNES
In a recent paper in the journal Nature, SES Professor Michael Durand and his team uses observations from the new Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite to provide the first global measurements of how much water rivers hold. See the NASA article about the paper's findings. Congratulations Mike!
