Oil spills are among the most damaging and frequent marine pollutions. Altimetry-computed FSLEs provide with an insight on the oil dispersion

Improving altimetry data gridding to provide with the most accurate and most detailed datasets is among the ongoing studies, with Artificial Intelligence in particular

Freeboard measured over sea ice includes the ice itself, but also snow which has fallen over the ice. Using altimeters at different frequencies enables to estimate both components.

Tidal currents can have an impact on a buoy's path, even in what seems to be the open ocean

Using different data sources, including remote sensing and in situ together can provide with different aspects of phytoplankton blooms around islands

Surface Measurements for Oceanographic Satellites: the SUMOS in-situ and airborne campaign for CFOSat data

Winds can push lake waters to the opposite shore. Swot will see the difference depending on its coverage of the water body.

A number of satellites using radar techniques (including altimetry) are observing tropical cyclones. Their data are used to improve forecasting.

Swot will provide vital information to estimate water resources variability and runoff, including in scarcely instrumented regions

Weekly-averaged SMOS or SMAP data, combined with altimetry SLAs and derived eddy trajectories help to identify eddies in sea surface salinity.

Altimetry water levels with in situ and other satellite data helps in estimating discharge over the River Congo basin

Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich has been launched on Nov. 21, 2020. The very first data were announced and publicized, as a celebration of the wealth of results to come