SWOT Data Visualization

Jupyter notebooks for visualizing SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) satellite data.

Notebooks

L4 Product (Gridded)

• swot_l4_global_visualization_june1_2024.ipynb - Visualizes SWOT L4 global gridded data for June 1, 2024

L3 Product (Swath)

• swot_l3_cycle16_visualization.ipynb - Visualizes SWOT L3 Basic, all passes from one cycle (cycle 16, May 29-June 18, 2024)

Requirements

xarray
numpy
matplotlib
cartopy

Data

Download SWOT data from AVISO:

• L3: https://doi.org/10.24400/527896/a01-2025.001
• L4: https://doi.org/10.24400/527896/A01-2023.017

Example AVISO Download for L4:

• download_AVISO_L4.py

Place data files in:

• swot_l3_cycle016/ for L3 swaths (cycle 16 here)
• swot_l4_data/ for L4 gridded products