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28.10.2008 Yves Ménard passed away
Yves Menard passed away on Monday, October 20th after a long and hard fight against disease. His friends and co-workers remember him with respect and admiration. He will be missed by all.
23.10.2008 12-18 October, 2008 week
La Terre comme elle va, au mètre près, chaque semaine (Le Monde, 2008/10/18) Température d'automne arctique: record de 5 degrés au-dessus de la normale (L'Internaute, 2008/10/17) On line availability of articles depends on the...[more]
21.10.2008 An unusually strong Indian monsoon
An unusually strong Indian monsoon occurs this year. Cartography, comparisons between several years thanks to LAS, in terms of sea level anomalies, winds and currents...
17.10.2008 New version C Jason-1 GDR is available
New version C Jason-1 Geophysical Data Records (GDRs). Currently, cycles 213-232, and 240 are available on the Aviso and Podaac ftp servers. All version C Jason-1 GDRs for all cycles will be available by the middle of 2009. [more]
16.10.2008 6 - 11 October, 2008 week
Kopernikus, réseau de suivi mondial de l'environnement et de la sécurité (Cnes, Conversations spatiales, octobre 2008) Un oeil sur les cyclones (vidéo Cnes, 4min06s, 06/10/2008) L'emblème du réchauffement climatique...[more]
10.10.2008 29 September - 4 October, 2008 week
Intense activité cyclonique en octobre dans l'Atlantique, selon des experts L'Internaute, 2008/10/01) Suivez cette bête (Libération, 2008/09/30) Hausse des mers: pas plus de 2 mètres (Science Presse, 2008/09/30) Le Nord gagne,...[more]
06.10.2008 October 2008: Thread-like structures extracted from altimetry
Altimetry can be used to compute thread-like structures below its nominal spatial resolution. Those filaments are important in ocean transport and mixing