Evaluation of the accuracy of SWOT satellite observations for monitoring lake water levels in the Yangtze River Basin
To evaluate the capability of the newly developed SWOT satellite for lake water level retrieval and basin-scale hydrological monitoring, this study selected 513 lakes larger than 1 km 2 in the Yangtze River Basin. SWOT L2 HR Raster data from November 2023 to May 2025 were used to extract lake water levels, and th...