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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]
02.03.2009 March 2009: Striped ocean
The availability of a long series of altimetry data had enabled to discover "striations" in the geostrophic velocities computed from the dynamic topography. Studies are ongoing to understand such a phenomena.
02.03.2009 First results for the new Jason tandem
First results made by Ssalto/Duacs since the end of Jason-1 drift, using the new multi-satellites configuration show good results.[more]










