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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]
26.02.2009 16-21 February, 2009 week
La terre vue de l'espace : « samedi noir » pour les feux de brousses (ESA, 2009/02/20)
Un cinquième des récifs coralliens a déjà disparu, le reste est en grand danger (Le Monde, 2009/02/18)
Les glaciers...[more]
18.02.2009 9-14 February, 2009 week
L'océan moins efficace pour absorber le CO2 émis par les activités humaines (CNRS, 2009/02/13)
ESA's water mission on track for launch (ESA, 2009/02/12)
Départ mercredi d'une mission pour mesurer l'épaisseur de l'Arctique...[more]