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2011-09-30 Arctic Sea ice extent near the low 2007 record

Arctic sea ice extent deduced from altimetry shows a lower-than-average surface again.


2011-09-29 19-24 September 2011 week

Changement climatique : Le lac Tchad, vers une fin ?  (InfoTchad, 2011/09) Aquarius Yields NASA's First Global Map of Ocean Salinity (NASA, 2011/09/22) La clé du mystère de la chaleur manquante est-elle dans les...


2011-09-22 12-17 September 2011 week

La part chaotique de la variabilité océanique (INSU, 2011/09/17) La fonte de la mer de glace en Arctique atteint des records en 2011 (News environnement, 2011/09/14) Les récifs coralliens seront morts d'ici 30 ans (7 sur 7,...


2011-09-14 September 2011: Cold and warm eddies pair off Vietnam

Altimetry enable to observe eddies all around the oceans. Some specific features show up from year to year, with some variability. They can thus be measured and studied.


2011-09-13 5-10 September 2011 week

La fonte des glaces arctiques bat un nouveau record, selon des chercheurs (Google, 2011/09/10) La guerre de l'eau : le Colorado dilapidé (Le Monde, 2011/09/09) Le phénomène La Nina sera actif cet hiver  (News...


2011-09-09 HY-2A : first data from Doris

Good results for the Doris instrument onboard the chinese satellite HY-2A. The orbit computation shows good quality.


2011-09-07 23 August - 4 September 2011 weeks

Mieux prévoir El Niño (Le Figaro, 2011/08/25) Revealed: an ice sheet on the move (ESA, 2011/08/18) China's surge continues with HaiYang-2A launch via Long March 4B (NASA, 2011/08/15) Japan tsunami caused icebergs to break...