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2013-04-08 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.


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2012-02-10 Keops2: Plankton blooms modeled

The Keops-2 oceanographic cruise ended last November. The strategy developed at sea with a new regional altimetry product to help to predict the extension of the blooms has been successful.


Other News ...

2013-04-22 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,...


2013-04-09 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.


2013-04-05 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 ?...


2013-04-02 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...


2013-03-29 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...