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2011-07-04 Special Issue: Jason-2 three years in orbit!
Placed on its working orbit on 4 July 2008, Jason-2 is running today, its 110th 10 days (repeat cycle). Results continues to show very good quality.
2011-06-20 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.
2010-02-05 Hurricane Oli seen by altimetry
Islands of French Polynesia in Pacific Ocean have been hit by the hurricane Oli since the beginning of February. Oli is classified in Category 4 (winds > 213 km/h) on February 4 off Bora-Bora islands. Rainfall and high seas...
2009-12-17 Report from OSTST Seattle meeting completed
The meeting report for the 2009 OSTST Meeting in Seattle is now complete. The full report is available on the Ocean Surface Topography Science Team Meeting website.
2009-09-07 Hurricane Jimena seen by Jason-2
Jimena began as a tropical depression on the 28th of August off Mexico. It intensified rapidly as it was moving northward. It became a powerful hurricane Category 5, the 1st of September when it approached the Southern...
2009-08-14 Typhoon Morakot seen by Jason-2
Typhoon Morakot crossed the China Sea from east to north-west early in August 2009. Huge damages were mainly caused by torrential rains in the island of Taiwan. Beginning with tropical depression in the Pacific Ocean,...
2009-08-05 Public Release of the Jason-2 Geophysical Data Records
The Jason-2/OSTM Geophysical Data Records (GDRs) are now available to the public after one year of calibration/validation.
