On the spatial scale resolved by the future SWOT KaRIN measurement over the ocean
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Abstract
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission aims to measure the sea surface height (SSH) at a high spatial resolution using Ka-band Radar Interferometer (KaRIN). The primary oceanographic objective is to characterize the ocean eddies at a spatial resolution of 15 km for 68% of the ocean. This resolution is derived from the signal to noise ratio between the wavenumber spectrum of the conventional altimeter (projected to submesoscale) and the SWOT SSH errors. While the 15km threshold is useful as a global approximation of the spatial scales resolved by SWOT (SWOT-scale), it can be misleading for regional studies. Here we revisit the problem using a high-resolution (~2km) tide-resolving global ocean simulation and map the SWOT-scale as a function of latitude-longitude and season. The results show that the SWOT-scale has a strong geographic and seasonal dependence. In general, it is smaller (<15km) in low latitudes, increases to ~30km in mid-latitudes; and is larger in local winter than in summer. Internal gravity waves and internal tides have a significant contribution to the scale variation. These characteristics provide a guideline for interpreting the satellite fidelity with ocean physics in consideration, which in turn sheds light on developing the future SWOT data assimilation system.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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