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2011-12-16 The winter storm Joachim
The Joachim storm hit the french coasts on Dec. 16th, 2011. Significant wave heights off the coasts can be measured by altimetry and reveals heights of more than 8 m.
2011-12-15 5-10 Decembre 2011 week
L'Arctique se réchauffe et son écosystème est bouleversé (7 sur 7, 2011/12/06)Climat : des scientifiques confirment la fonte des glaciers de l'Himalaya (AFP, 2011/12/05)La hausse du niveau des océans pourrait atteindre 1...
2011-12-15 19 - 30 November 2011 weeks
Le climat sous la menace de la fonte des sols arctiques (Le Figaro, 2011/12/02)NASA's Antarctic 2011 IceBridge Campaign Concludes (NASA, 2011/11/23)Voleurs de neige : diminution de l'impact de la fonte de neige sur le...
2011-12-14 December 2011: Missing: water
Altimetry enable to monitor wetland surfaces in Siberia as well as river run-offs. Comparisons between those and precipitation lead to look for water missing to balance the water budget.
2011-11-22 Flood in Southeast Asia
Major floods hit southeast Asia during the 2011 monsoon season. Hydrology-dedicated data from altimetry enable to monitor the water level over rivers.
2011-11-22 7-20 November 2011 weeks
Températures, océans, canicules: les indices du changement climatique (Tahiti infos, 2011/11/20) Le phénomène climatique la Niña est de retour (Maxisciences, 2011/11/18) Réduction de la production primaire par les tourbillons...
2011-11-17 Keops2: plankton bloom
The Keops-2 oceanographic cruise continues, with bio-chemical samplings in the eddies spotted by altimetry. Those help understand the microorganism developments with respect to dissolved iron, nitrogen, silicium, etc.
2011-11-10 24 October - 6 November 2011 weeks
Regain Arctique (ASP, 2011/11/07) La fonte des glaciers s'accélère en Himalaya (MaxiSciences, 2011/10/30) "Des moussons encore plus fortes à l'avenir" (JDD, 2011/10/29) Lancement du premier satellite...
2011-11-09 November 2011: the ocean is (in part) its own source of variability
Models enable to simulate the ocean. By changing the parameters of those models, the different influences and sources of the ocean variability (including the ocean itself) can be discriminated, and compared to altimetry...