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\title{The Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission (SWOT) Prior Lake
Database (PLD): Lake mask and operational auxiliaries}



\author[1]{Jida Wang}%
\author[2]{Claire Pottier}%
\author[3]{Cécile Cazals}%
\author[3]{Marjorie Battude}%
\author[4]{Yongwei Sheng}%
\author[5]{Chunqiao Song}%
\author[1]{Md Safat Sikder}%
\author[6]{Xiao Yang}%
\author[7]{Linghong Ke}%
\author[8]{Marielle Gosset}%
\author[9]{Rafael Reis Alencar Oliveira}%
\author[10]{Manuela Grippa}%
\author[11]{Félix Girard}%
\author[12]{George H Allen}%
\author[13]{Sylvain Biancamaria}%
\author[14]{Laurence Smith}%
\author[15]{Jean-François Crétaux}%
\author[6]{Tamlin M Pavelsky}%
\affil[1]{University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign}%
\affil[2]{Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES)}%
\affil[3]{CS Group}%
\affil[4]{Department of Geography, University of California}%
\affil[5]{Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences}%
\affil[6]{University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill}%
\affil[7]{College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University}%
\affil[8]{Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement}%
\affil[9]{Ceará State's Foundation for Meteorology and Water Resources (FUNCEME, UFC, UT, GET)}%
\affil[10]{Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, Univ. Toulouse, CNRS, IRD, CNES}%
\affil[11]{Géosciences Environnement Toulouse (Université de Toulouse, CNRS, IRD, CNES)}%
\affil[12]{Virginia Tech}%
\affil[13]{CNRS/LEGOS}%
\affil[14]{Brown University}%
\affil[15]{Laboratoire d'Études en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales (LEGOS)}%


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  \date{May 24, 2024}


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Lakes are the most prevalent and predominant water repositories on land
surface. A primary objective of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography
(SWOT) satellite mission is to monitor the surface water elevation,
area, and storage change in Earth's lakes. To meet this objective, prior
information of global lakes, such as locations and benchmark extents, is
required to organize SWOT's KaRIn observations over time for computing
lake storage variation. Here, we present the SWOT mission Prior Lake
Database (PLD) to fulfill this requirement. This paper emphasizes the
development of the ``operational PLD'', which consists of (1) a
high-resolution mask of \textasciitilde{}6 million lakes and reservoirs
with a minimum area of 1 ha, and (2) multiple operational auxiliaries to
assist the lake mask in generating SWOT's standard vector lake products.
We built the prior lake mask by harmonizing the UCLA Circa-2015 Global
Lake Dataset and several state-of-the-art reservoir databases.
Operational auxiliaries were produced from multi-theme geospatial data
to provide information necessary to embody the PLD function, including
lake catchments and influence areas, ice phenology, relationship with
SWOT-visible rivers, and spatiotemporal coverage by SWOT overpasses.
Globally, over three quarters of the prior lakes are smaller than 10 ha.
Nearly 96\% of the lakes, constituting over half of the global lake
area, are fully observed at least once per orbit cycle. The PLD will be
recursively improved during the mission period and serves as a critical
framework for organizing, processing, and interpreting SWOT observations
over lacustrine environments with fundamental significance to lake
system science.%
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