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20.03.2009 Variability of Mediterranean Sea

Like all seas and oceans over the world, the Mediterranean Sea has a spatial and temporal variability. By representing the sea level anomalies rms over all the available period (1992-2008), strong, medium and low variability...
19.03.2009 9-14 March, 2009 week
Acidic seas fuel extinction fears (BBC, 2009/03/11)
Sur la côte nord d'Hokkaido, l'île la plus septentrionale du Japon, la banquise fond de plus en plus tôt (le Monde, 2009/03/10)
Les experts du climat se retrouvent à ...[more]
17.03.2009 Liftoff of GOCE on 17 March 2009

Following the interruption yesterday during the countdown, the launch has been postponed. Finally, Goce was launched this afternoon, on 17 March 2009.[more]
12.03.2009 2-8 March, 2009 week
GOCE satellite launch - mapping the Earth's gravity as never before (ESA, 2009/03/09)
Acidification des océans: les coquilles des organismes marins diminuent (yahoo, 2009/03/08)
La recherche polaire confirme un réchauffement...[more]
10.03.2009 Goce ready to be launched on 16 March 2009

Esa's Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (Goce) has been developed to improve the knowledge about the gravity field. An accurate gravity map -the geoid- is also crucial for geodesy applications and for...[more]
05.03.2009 Aviso Altimetry on Google Earth

Find again the most beautiful pictures of the altimetry applications all over the oceans with Google Earth: currents, eddies, geoid, bathymetry, ...[more]
05.03.2009 23-28 February, 2009 week
L'océan, un puits de carbone qui sature ? (Pour la Science, 2009/02/26)
La fonte des glaces des deux pôles s'accélère plus que prévu (Lâinternaute, 2009/02/25)
Melting on the Greenland Ice Cap, 2008 (Earthobservatory,...[more]