Welcome
The NASA SWWG has greatly facilitated the initiation and advancement of a satellite designed to measure surface water hydraulics. This proposed concept is called WATER HM. Please click on the following link to learn more about WATER HM. WATER HM activities have largely usurped those of the SWWG.
http://bprc.osu.edu/water/
Welcome to The NASA Surface Water Working Group (SWWG) web page. We are a working group funded by the Terrestrial Hydrology Program which is a part of the Earth Science Enterprise at NASA. Please follow the links throughout this web page to learn more about us.
We strongly encourage your participation in our working group! Please contact us for more information. Check out the Membership page to enter your contact information.
Background Information
Our working group is funded through the Terrestrial Hydrology Program of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise. We started as an outgrowth of the post-2002 mission planning process and from a white paper lead-authored by Charlie Vörösmarty (click on the publications button to find the white paper).
We focus on the following science and applications questions:
- What are the observational and data assimilation requirements for measuring natural and manmade surface storage and river discharge that will allow us to:
- understand the land surface branch of the global hydrologic cycle
- predict the consequences of global change, and
- make assessments for water resources management?
- What are the roles of wetlands, lakes, and rivers
- as regulators of biogeochemical cycles (e.g., carbon and nutrients) and
- in creating or ameliorating water-related hazards of relevance to society?
Working Group Roadmap
We have recently been asked by THP to create a "roadmap" for the working group. As exemplified by the following link, roadmaps have become an integral part of ESE. Please click on the following powerpoint slide, make changes, and email your thoughts to Doug Alsdorf.
