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22.04.2013 8-21 April 2013 week
Une "soupe" de particules de plastique envahit les Grands Lacs d'Amérique du Nord (Notre planète info, 2013/04/16)La saison 2013 des ouragans sera très active dans lâAtlantique (News environnement,...[more]
09.04.2013 April 2013: Release of GDR annual validation reports
Those documents present the synthesis concerning the validation activities of the GDRs, and also the comparisons of altimetry with two kinds of in-situ measurements.[more]
08.04.2013 April 2013: Surface currents, a pinch of winds with altimetry

Mixing geostrophic currents and scatterometers-derived ones, one can obtain more realistics and useful currents to explain, e.g. surface drifters trajectories, but also biology including cholorophyll concentration in the ocean.
05.04.2013 1-7 April 2013 week
Sea Ice Max Continues Downward Trend (Earth Observatory, 2013/04/04)Les îles du Pacifique de plus en plus impactées par le réchauffement climatique (Maxisciences, 2013/04/03)Peut-on nettoyer les océans des déchets plastiques...[more]
02.04.2013 24-31 March 2013 week
La fonte de la mer de glace Arctique est-elle responsable de la vague de froid ? (news environnement, 2013/03/27)Le réchauffement des températures incite lâOcéan Antarctique à rejeter du CO2 (news environnement,...[more]
29.03.2013 SARAL AltiKa noise figures measured in orbit
The noise figures on the 3 geophysical parameters (range, SWH and sigma_naught) have been computed with the SARAL Altika altimeter flight data. This demonstrates the very good data quality provided by this instrument. In...[more]
29.03.2013 SARAL : Level2 IGDRs products generated on CNES side
CNES has started to generate the level2 SARAL IGDRs products - this is another important milestone in the ongoing SARAL commissioning activities[more]