2014 Images of the Month
- Dec. 2014: Sahelian dry and wet seasons seen by altimetry
Altimetry enable to monitor soil moisture in semi-arid areas like Sahel
- Oct. 2014: Better Mediterranean circulation
Mediterranean circulation needs a high-resolution. With a new processing, oceanic features are clearly seen.
- Aug. 2014: The Agulhas current leaks
The evolution of the Agulhas leakage, and thus of the water exchanges between Indian and Atlantic Ocean has been computed thanks to twenty years of altimetry data
- July 2014: Groundwater from altimetry
In the Amazon plain, the groundwater level is about the same than the rivers' and lakes', which can be measured by altimetry
- May 2014: Forecasting rivers
Combining Jason-2 Ganges-Brahmaputra levels with a forecasting model can lead to forecast water level
- Apr. 2014: Melting in the Kara Sea
AltiKa data over the Kara Sea enable to distinguish there the effects of ice melting and also the presence of polylinias.
- Jan. 2014: 35 years of altimetry!
Seasat was the first proof-of-concept altimeter which gave real oceanographic data. The Loop Current, among others was observed this way in 1978.