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14.12.2010 December 2010: An island "seen" by an altimeter

The radar echo return power of the altimeter enable to keep track of inhomogeneities of surface roughness within the altimeter footprint, since they modify the way the radar waves reflects on the surface, and to reconstruct an...
09.12.2010 Temporary interruption of the Aviso data acess services December 10-11, 2010
Aviso services (data access services as Aviso data extraction service, Opendap, LAS) may be momentarily unavailable due to maintenance on Friday December 10th (from 18:00 UTC) and all the Saturday December 11th, 2010. Some...
08.12.2010 November 29 - December 4, 2010 week
Même la fin du réchauffement climatique n'enrayera pas la fonte des glaciers (Nouvel Obs, 2010/12/02)
Les ours polaires s'adaptent au changement climatique (Maxisciences, 2010/11/30)
De Cancun (Mexique) à Malé...[more]
30.11.2010 Benguela current, an Atlantic Niño ?

Some warm events in the South Atlantic Ocean have been named Benguela Niños, because of the similarity to the El Niño phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean (ENSO).
30.11.2010 22-27 November 2010 week
Une nouvelle espèce marine découverte dans l'Océan Pacifique (Maxisciences, 2010/11/25)
Eaux profondes de l'Océan Indien : une riche biodiversité en sursis (Univers Nature, 2010/11/24)
Bright Waters off the Namibian...[more]
26.11.2010 Temporary interruptions for all GDR files on Cnes FTP server November 30, 2010
Cnes FTP servers may be momentarily unavailable due to upgrade/maintenance on Tuesday November 30th, 2010. All GDR files (OGDR/OSDR, S(I)GDR, IGDR, GDR) are concerned.[more]