News tagged with sea surface height

Huge pool of Arctic fresh water could cool Europe

British scientists have discovered an enormous dome of fresh water in the western Arctic Ocean. They think it may result from strong Arctic winds accelerating a great clockwise ocean circulation called the ...

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created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Via research aircraft instead of dog sled

With dog food and a pack of huskies Dr. Veit Helm would not get far on his Antarctic expeditions. Instead, the geophysicist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association conducts ...

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created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Data From Newest Ocean Satellite Ready for Their 'Close-up'

Following a year of calibration and validation by an international team of scientists, fully-validated, research-quality sea surface height data from the NASA/French Space Agency Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason-2 ...

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created Aug 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Satellites Capture Sea Surface Heights Around the World

(PhysOrg.com) -- This artist's rendering shows a "family portrait" of Jason-1, Topex/Poseidon, and OSTM/Jason-2, all NASA satellites that collect data about sea surface heights around the world. Sea surface ...

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created Feb 06, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (9) | comments 0




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CryoSat goes to sea

CryoSat was launched in 2010 to measure sea-ice thickness in the Arctic, but data from the Earth-observing satellite have also been exploited for other studies. High-resolution mapping of the topography of the ocean floor ...

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created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Typhoon Sanvu affecting Iwo To, then expected to fade over weekend

Infrared and visible imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite taken on May 25, 2012, showed an impressive Typhoon Sanvu already affecting the islands of Iwo To and Chichi Jima, Japan. The typhoon is expected to ...

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created May 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA sees Tropical Storm Sanvu continue to intensify

Two NASA satellites have provided infrared and rainfall data that has shown Tropical Storm Sanvu continues to intensify as it heads toward Iwo To, Japan. NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite ...

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created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Seeking signs of life at the glacier's edge

Microbes living at the edges of Arctic ice sheets could help researchers pinpoint evidence for similar microorganisms that could have evolved on Mars, the Jovian moon Europa, or Saturn's moon Enceladus.

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created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Team observes rapid change in underwater volcano Monowai

(Phys.org) -- A research team out to perform routine mapping of the seafloor some 400 kilometers southwest of Tonga, found that one volcano, named Monowai, changed dramatically over just a two week time span. ...

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created May 14, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

ESA declares end of mission for Envisat satellite

Just weeks after celebrating its tenth year in orbit, communication with the Envisat satellite was suddenly lost on 8 April. Following rigorous attempts to re-establish contact and the investigation of failure ...

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created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

GPS on commercial ships could improve tsunami warnings

Commercial ships travel across most of the globe and could provide better warnings for potentially deadly tsunamis, according to a study published May 5 by scientists at the University of Hawaii – Manoa ...

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created May 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wind pushes plastics deeper into oceans, driving trash estimates up

(Phys.org) -- While working on a research sailboat gliding over glassy seas in the Pacific Ocean, oceanographer Giora Proskurowski noticed something new: The water was littered with confetti-size pieces of ...

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created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Exclusive species found at higher altitudes

Researchers have long postulated that animal and vegetation species living in mountainous areas of high altitude are isolated, and thus much more exclusive. A new Spanish-German study substantiates this long-held ...

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created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA views our perpetually moving ocean

(Phys.org) -- The swirling flows of Earth's perpetually changing ocean come to life in a new NASA scientific visualization that captures the movement of tens of thousands of ocean currents.

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created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2


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