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Recent presentations at OSTST meeting (2011 & 2010)

Scientific litterature

  • Ablain M.,  Lombard A., Picot N., Cazenave A., 2010. Error Estimation of the global and local mean sea level trends from Jason-1&2 and T/P data. Communication at OceanSciences symposium, 22-26 Feb. 2010, Portland (pdf, 2Mo).
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