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2009-03-25 16-21 March 2009 week
A la recherche du géoïde parfait (Le Monde, 2009/03/20) ESA lauches first Earth Explorer mission GOCE (ESA, 2009/03/17) 120 pays attendus à la conférence mondiale sur les océans en Indonésie ( AFP,...
2009-03-20 Variability of Mediterranean Sea
Like all seas and oceans over the world, the Mediterranean Sea has a spatial and temporal variability. By representing the sea level anomalies rms over all the available period (1992-2008), strong, medium and low variability...
2009-03-19 9-14 March, 2009 week
Acidic seas fuel extinction fears (BBC, 2009/03/11) Sur la côte nord d'Hokkaido, l'île la plus septentrionale du Japon, la banquise fond de plus en plus tôt (le Monde, 2009/03/10) Les experts du climat se retrouvent à...
2009-03-17 Liftoff of GOCE on 17 March 2009
Following the interruption yesterday during the countdown, the launch has been postponed. Finally, Goce was launched this afternoon, on 17 March 2009.
2009-03-12 2-8 March, 2009 week
GOCE satellite launch - mapping the Earth's gravity as never before (ESA, 2009/03/09) Acidification des océans: les coquilles des organismes marins diminuent (yahoo, 2009/03/08) La recherche polaire confirme un réchauffement...
2009-03-10 Goce ready to be launched on 16 March 2009
Esa's Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (Goce) has been developed to improve the knowledge about the gravity field. An accurate gravity map -the geoid- is also crucial for geodesy applications and for...
2009-03-05 Aviso Altimetry on Google Earth
Find again the most beautiful pictures of the altimetry applications all over the oceans with Google Earth: currents, eddies, geoid, bathymetry, ...
2009-03-05 23-28 February, 2009 week
L'océan, un puits de carbone qui sature ? (Pour la Science, 2009/02/26) La fonte des glaces des deux pôles s'accélère plus que prévu (L’internaute, 2009/02/25) Melting on the Greenland Ice Cap, 2008 (Earthobservatory,...
2009-03-02 March 2009: Striped ocean
The availability of a long series of altimetry data had enabled to discover "striations" in the geostrophic velocities computed from the dynamic topography. Studies are ongoing to understand such a phenomena.
2009-03-02 First results for the new Jason tandem
First results made by Ssalto/Duacs since the end of Jason-1 drift, using the new multi-satellites configuration show good results.