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    Hydrological Insights From SWOT: Comparative Analysis of Water Surface Elevation and Area Time Series From Hydrocron API
    (Elsevier, 2025) Karahan, Sait Mutlu; Gunduz, Orhan
    The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission plays an essential role in enhancing the monitoring and management of inland water bodies by providing high-resolution global observations of surface water dynamics. A critical tool in leveraging SWOT data is the Hydrocron API (Application Programming Interface), which facilitates access to temporally consistent SWOT-derived hydrological datasets. In this study, SWOT's Lake data "L2_HR_LakeSP" time series data retrieved from Hydrocron was utilized to evaluate water surface elevation (WSE) and surface area dynamics across six distinct lake locations around the world. To quantify the accuracy of SWOT, error metrics including Symmetric Mean Absolute Percentage Error (SMAPE), Absolute Percentage Error (APE), and Normalized Root Mean Square Error as a percentage (NRMSE%) were computed for both WSE and surface area estimates. The results indicated that the highest WSE error, with a SMAPE of 3.83 %, was observed in the lake characterized by the smallest surface area, suggesting a sensitivity of SWOT measurements to spatial scale. Conversely, the greatest error in surface area estimation occurred in the shallowest lake with SMAPE and APE values of 19.56 % and 22.01 %, respectively, highlighting the influence of bathymetric complexity on SWOT's detection capabilities. Despite these localized variances, the overall performance of SWOT data was found to be highly promising, demonstrating strong potential for operational hydrological applications and long-term water resource monitoring. The integration of SWOT observations with hydrological models via platforms such as Hydrocron underscores the mission's potential in advancing the understanding of inland water dynamics at both regional and global scales.
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    Derivation of Soil Hydraulic Properties (SHPS) Using a Physics-Based Inverse Calibration Method and International Soil Moisture Network Database
    (Elsevier, 2025) Sahin, Onur Gungor; Gunduz, Orhan
    This study used extensive soil moisture records to estimate "inverse-calibrated Soil Hydraulic Properties (SHPs)" using a multi-processing technique via high-performance computing clusters. Within this objective, a mass conservative numerical model was developed to solve the one-dimensional Richards Equation incorporating two different soil hydraulic models: the well-known van Genuchten Mualem (VGM) model and the relatively new Fredlund-Xing-Wang (FXW). A multiprocessing version of the Differential Evolution Algorithm (DEA) optimization technique was used for inverse calibration of the soil hydraulic parameters. For FXW, calibration statistics were calculated as means of the KGE' (0.89 f 0.1 and 0.83 f 0.23), R (0.89 f 0.1 and 0.85 f 0.21) and ubRMSE (0.017 f 0.01 and 0.015 f 0.02) for the depths 50 and 100 cm, respectively. For VGM, calibration statistics were found as means of the KGE' (0.87 f 0.11 and 0.78 f 0.22), R (0.90 f 0.08 and 0.86 f 0.17) and ubRMSE (0.019 f 0.01 and 0.017 f 0.01) for the same depths, respectively. The employed methodology had highly promising statistical performance for both FXW and VGM to derive SHPs. A comprehensive validation methodology was used to evaluate the reliability of derived SHPs. Correlation analysis showed that derived SHPs strongly correlated with the soil properties and environmental variables. Further, as a validation procedure, initial investigations were also conducted to explore the spatial transferability of the parameters. Despite the use of basic k-means clustering, the resulting soil hydraulic datasets showed statistical similarity or even improvement to hyper-resolution maps used in the literature. While the simulation model of the methodology has certain assumptions and limitations, this study proves that the ISMN database can be used to derive soil hydraulic properties and transfer these parameters to locations other than the calibration points. This study shows that FXW is a promising hydraulic model for the determination of soil moisture at root zone within the complete moisture range. The methodology can also be readily extended to other established soil moisture monitoring networks and potentially extended versions of "inverse-calibrated SHPs" and trained pedotransfer functions are considered to be valuable tools to estimate soil moisture profiles at the root zone.