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2008-09-25 GFO unavailable over the past few days

GFO

The satellite has been shutdown in response to the onboard problem of overheating reaction wheels as the satellite goes into a period of full sun. If everything goes well, GFO may be turned on in early November. However, even...


2008-09-24 15-20 September 2008, week

Grosses incertitudes sur le niveau de la hausse des océans (Notre-Planète info, 2008/09/18) Un programme européen veut rendre accessibles à tous les données observées par les satellites (Le Monde, 2008/09/18) La banquise...


2008-09-18 Eddies in the Gulf of Alaska

The Gulf of Alaska is an identifying location of mesoscale eddies, all predominantly anticyclonic. Some of their characteristics, or their seasonal and interannual activity can be approached with the LAS.


2008-09-18 8-13 September, 2008 week

Hurricane Ike tracked by ESA's Envisat (ESA, 2008/09/11) Les routes de l'Arctique sont ouvertes (Science Presse, 2008/09/09) Pendant les débats scientifiques, la banquise se disloque (Science et vie, 2008/09/05) Global...


2008-09-15 Ssalto/Duacs products updated

After the problem detected on Jason-1 the 2008/08/07, the Duacs data were reprocessed all over the period.


2008-09-12 Hurricane Ike seen by Jason-2

Jason-2 measures wind speed along hurricane Ike'path.

Jason-2 made some measurements of hurricane Ike crossing the Gulf of Mexico.


2008-09-11 Jason-2 on the tracks of the swell

Assimilation of altimetric data in models improve operational ocean forecasting systems.


2008-09-10 1-6 September, 2008 week

Pyrénées : les glaciers auront disparu avant 2050 (La Dépêche, 2008/09/06) Hurricane Season 2008: Hurricane Gustav (Central Caribbean) (Nasa, 2008/09/03) Les calottes glaciaires peuvent fondre à une vitesse inattendue (Le...


2008-09-04 Series of hurricanes in the Atlantic

Hurricane season is at its fullest in the Atlantic, with no less than 4 hurricanes or tropical storms. Three of them are visible on the same Jason-2 wind speed map.


2008-09-03 18-30 august, 2008 weeks

 Arctic ice on the verge of another all-time low (ESA, 2008/08/28) La fonte du CO2 gelé en Arctique accélérera le réchauffement (Le Nouvel Observateur, 2008/08/25) Des éléphants de mer pour étudier les courants (Le...