Acknowledgements
This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001, and the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) – Grant Number 41161/2017-5. It was conducted in the context of the SWOT-MOD science team project from SWOT satellite mission. We would also like to thank colleagues from the Large Scale Hydrology Group (HGE/IPH) for general discussions about this study. Data presented in this study are available at <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3956609> (MGB code in FORTRAN, MGB Input folder, post-processing code in MATLAB).