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19.03.2008 10-15 March, 2008 week
Glaciers suffer record shrinkage (BBC, 2008/03/16)
La tendance à la fonte des glaciers s'accélère dans le monde entier (Yahoo, 2008/03/16)
Fonte record l'an dernier sur un glacier antarctique (Yahoo, 2008/03/14)
Les...[more]
17.03.2008 Jason-2 orbital views

Visualize the Jason-2 satellite at an altitude of 1336 km and view it from every angle with this interactive interface : detail its instruments, deploy its solar panels to get maximum solar radiation, point the altimeter antenna...
14.03.2008 Mediterranean animated currents

The latest version of the LAS (7.+) enables a new data representation, very useful to highlight the evolution of a variable over time: animated images. Example in the Mediterranean Sea
13.03.2008 North Atlantic storm generate huge waves

A storm hit the North-East Atlantic coast on March 10, 2008. Altimeters measured significant wave heights above 16 m.[more]
11.03.2008 Altimetry applications in videos : Aral Sea

Satellite altimetry is an efficient tool in monitoring the level of enclosed seas, lakes and even large rivers. Since 1991, the Aral Sea is flown over - or was overflown - by a serie of altimetry satellites that measure the two...[more]
11.03.2008 3-10 March, 2008 week
Quand la mer monte...(Blog Libération, 2008/03/10)
New Method To Estimate Sea Ice Thickness (Science Daily, 2008/03/07)
On line availability of articles depends on the Newspaper/magazine. We can't thus certify that above...[more]
05.03.2008 March 2008: Black Sea's eddies

Black Sea is a singular body of water. Altimetry observes its circulations, including eddies.