Tamlin Pavelsky

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Professor at UNC, hydrology lead for NASA SWOT mission. Water, climate, remote sensing. Alaskan. he/him. https://uncglobalhydrology.org

Scientific figuring with three panels. Left panel shows a map of the Everglades in Florida overlaid with data from the SWOT mission. It shows very detailed water level data throughout the everglades. The second panel, in the upper right, is a scatterplot showing in situ gauge water level against SWOT water level. It shows a mean absolute error of 6.7 cm, a correlation coefficient of 0.996, and a mean bias of 6.8 cm. The third figure, a scatterplot in the lower right, shows that by averaging 30 or more SWOT pixels, high accuracy is possible.

Map of global lake distribution, colored by the number of SWOT overpasses per 21 day cycle. There are many lakes with a high number of SWOT overpasses at high northern latitudes, but there are also tens of thousands to more than a million lakes on every continent. Lakes are graphed by latitude and longitude on the edges of the figure.

Listing of SWOT-specific sessions at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting

Jeremiah Johnson nodding gif

Tamlin in a lifejacket with the river behind.

Andy in the rain after escaping from Shawshank Prison.