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23.04.2013 Anny Cazenave, appointed to the annual chair at the Collège de France
Anny Cazenave is appointed to the annual chair "Sustainable Developments, Environment, Energy and Society" at the Collège de France. Its inaugural lecture "Studying the Earth and the environment from Space" done on March 2013 is...[more]
22.04.2013 8-21 April 2013 week
Une "soupe" de particules de plastique envahit les Grands Lacs d'Amérique du Nord (Notre planète info, 2013/04/16)La saison 2013 des ouragans sera très active dans l’Atlantique (News environnement,...[more]
09.04.2013 April 2013: Release of GDR annual validation reports
Those documents present the synthesis concerning the validation activities of the GDRs, and also the comparisons of altimetry with two kinds of in-situ measurements.[more]
08.04.2013 April 2013: Surface currents, a pinch of winds with altimetry
Mixing geostrophic currents and scatterometers-derived ones, one can obtain more realistics and useful currents to explain, e.g. surface drifters trajectories, but also biology including cholorophyll concentration in the ocean.
05.04.2013 1-7 April 2013 week
Sea Ice Max Continues Downward Trend (Earth Observatory, 2013/04/04)Les îles du Pacifique de plus en plus impactées par le réchauffement climatique (Maxisciences, 2013/04/03)Peut-on nettoyer les océans des déchets plastiques ?...[more]
02.04.2013 24-31 March 2013 week
La fonte de la mer de glace Arctique est-elle responsable de la vague de froid ? (news environnement, 2013/03/27)Le réchauffement des températures incite l’Océan Antarctique à rejeter du CO2 (news environnement, 2013/03/27)Les...[more]
29.03.2013 SARAL AltiKa noise figures measured in orbit
The noise figures on the 3 geophysical parameters (range, SWH and sigma_naught) have been computed with the SARAL Altika altimeter flight data. This demonstrates the very good data quality provided by this instrument. In...[more]
