Dr. Hind Oubanas, CNES’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Hydrology Science Lead, gives an overview of SWOT river discharge data products and algorithm development. Specifically, the Dr. Oubanas describes the work of the SWOT Discharge Algorithms Working Group (DAWG), detailing how river discharge is derived from SWOT observations, and what products are being developed and validated. For more information see:

• SWOT Discharge Algorithm Working Group Sword of Science River Discharge Dataset Release 
• SWOT Data Products Overview
• Tutorials via the PO.DAAC Cookbook: SWOT Chapter 
• Community code via the SWOT Community GitHub Repository 

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URLs:

• 1:00 The Philosophy of River Discharge from SWOT Observations 
• 3:20 SWOT Discharge Algorithms Working Group (DAWG)
• 5:20 SWOT Discharge Algorithms and Products
• 8:10 SWOT Discharge Validation and Application Examples