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01.07.2011 Temporary interruption on Aviso website on July 5th 2011
Aviso website will be momentarily unavailable due to maintenance on Tuesday July 5th, 2011 between 9:00 am to 10:00 am UTC. Data access services (FTP, Opendap, Extraction service, LAS) will work well. We apologize for the...
01.07.2011 July 2011: Altimetry peaks at sea ice
Sea ice around Antarctica mostly forms and melts each year. Altimetry can observe sea ice in different ways, in particular in taking into account the shape of the radar echoes (their "peakiness").
30.06.2011 20-25 June 2011 week
Le réchauffement climatique menace de plus en plus les ours polaires (Zegreenweb, 2011/06/24) La Méditerranée menacée par les déchets plastiques (La Dépêche, 2011/06/23) New ice thickness map of the Arctic unveiled (ESA,...[more]
22.06.2011 13-18 June 2011 week
Les années El Niño (Cyberpresse, 2011/06/19) Le niveau de la mer devrait augmenter de 85 cm d'ici 2100 à Cuba, selon des scientifiques (Le Nouvel Observateur, 2011/06/17) Les causes de la fonte des glaciers tropicaux enfin...[more]
20.06.2011 Jason-2 - three years in orbit !!!
With now 3 years in orbit, Jason-2 is fulfilling all mission expectations and provides state of the art quality data to more than 2000 teams around the world.[more]
17.06.2011 New Data Use Cases on hydrology published on BRAT
Two new Data Uses Cases dedicated to hydrology studies, using experimental Pistach products, are published on the Basic Radar Altimetry Toolbox website. [more]