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04.09.2008 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.[more]
03.09.2008 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...[more]
02.09.2008 September 2008: Altimetry to validate Argo

Altimetry can be used to check the quality of the global Argo in situ array of profiling floats
02.09.2008 Hurricane Gustav as seen by Jason-2

Jason-2 made some measurements showing among other things the Hurricane Gustav wind speed.[more]
26.08.2008 Jason-2 (temporarily) integrated into Ssalto/Duacs Near-real time processing

Jason-2 data have been (temporarily) integrated in Ssalto/Duacs NRT processing, instead of Jason-1 (unavailable due to a single event upset and subsequent safehold mode)[more]
22.08.2008 Jason-2 plays roller-coaster in the Algulhas retroflection eddies

Jason-2 measured some quite impressive sea level anomalies South of Africa -more than 2 m between high and low. If such heights, corresponding to eddies in a very turbulent region are not absolutely extraordinary, they are still...[more]
18.08.2008 Jason-2 for hydrology: good perspectives

Improvement of the altimetry data availability over lakes and rivers with respect to Jason-1's is one of the objectives of Jason-2. Results are promising, with much more measurements retrieved.[more]