A $1bn Nasa mission is expected to transform our view of Earth's water by tracking its rise and fall.
Plankton blooms trace the swirling eddies in the South Atlantic around the Falkland Islands
Swot should be able to resolve all rivers at least 100m wide, and see all lakes larger than 6 hectares . For the ocean, Swot will see the bulges and depressions in the water surface associated with currents and eddies as small as 20km across. It's the swirling of water in eddies that pulls heat and carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, tempering the impact of global warming.
But the British involvement also extends to the coming "calibration and validation" campaign in the Spring, which will check Swot is returning good information.
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