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18.08.2026 Version 4.0 of Mesoscale Eddy Trajectory Atlas
Anticyclonic and Cyclonic eddies detected from the multimission altimetry datasets, with their location, contours, amplitude, radius speed and associated metadata. Eddy detection relies on the pyeddytracker (PET) algorithm.
04.08.2026 August 2026: classifying sea ice leads and floes in Swot data
A classification of sea ice, made by Legos, based on Swot data distinguishes between leads and floes for each 250-metre pixel
30.07.2026 Typhoon Bavi seen by nadir altimeters, Swot and Sentinel-1
Significant wave heights over 12 m were measured every day from the 6th to the 11th of July by different nadir altimeters in the vicinity of the typhoon (instantaneous maximum over 14.5 m on the 7th ).
Sentinel-1 SAR sea...
20.07.2026 [S6-B] Altimetry Level-2 NRT/STC Data Release
On July 16, 2026, EUMETSAT announced the release of new Poseidon-4 altimetry data from the Sentinel-6B mission.[more]
17.07.2026 Version 2024 of MIOST internal tide Atlas
MIOST-IT24 (Tchilibou et al., 2025) is a global atlas of coherent internal tide developed during the period 2024-2025.
16.07.2026 New version 6.0 of MOHeaCAN product
This new version, based on a innovative approach that combines in-situ, altimetric, and gravimetric data (Fourest et al. 2026), shows a very significant improvement in the estimation of Global Ocean Heat Uptake (GOHU) and the EEI...
03.07.2026 Jul. 2026: El Niño 2026: altimetry reveals similarities with the extreme event of 1997
An El Niño event has been developing in the Tropical Pacific for several months now. Forecasting extreme events is particularly difficult, but altimetry can help.











