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02.10.2013 October 2013: Salts and temperature vs altimetry

Ocean surface heights measured by altimetry reflect the density of the waters, which is a matter of salinity and temperature.Using SMOS satellite surface salinity and SST, a surface density can be computed, and compared with...
02.10.2013 22-29 September 2013 week

Océan et climat : les impacts revisités (IRD, 2013/09)
Climat : "Le réchauffement climatique est une réalité" (Nouvel Observateur, 2013/09/27)
Océan austral, de nombreux "bouquets" d'espèces faisant...[more]
26.09.2013 15 - 21 September 2013 week

Réchauffement climatique : les experts du Giec publient un rapport alarmant (RTL, 2013/09/21)
Suisse : changement climatique à l'oeuvre au glacier de Morteratsch (Nouvel Obs, 2013/09/21)
Le ralentissement du...[more]
19.09.2013 September 2013: Icebergs on the move

Having twenty years of altimetry enables to compute statistics on icebergs including a climatology of icebergs shed by the Antarctic continent.
16.09.2013 2-15 September 2013 weeks

Le GIEC pointe les difficultés d'adaptation de certains systèmes humains et naturels (News Environnement, 2013/09/13)
Des vagues hautes comme un immeuble au fond de l'océan (Nouvel obs, 2013/09/10)
Les états...[more]
05.09.2013 Saral, first verification workshop : main conclusions

The Saral project team and some scientists involved in the analysis of Saral data have held a first verification meeting on August 27th-29th in Toulouse. See hereafter the main conclusions and the decisison to deliver the GDR to...[more]
13.08.2013 August 2013: 20 years of altimetry for typhoons

Tropical cyclones are known to be intensified by the heat of the upper ocean. Sea surface heights from altimetry enable to have an insight on e subsurface warm layer thickness and upper ocean heat content and their variations...