Nov 24, 2015 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
The El Niño / Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is Earth’s largest interannual climate signal, with an impact on weather, ecosystems, societies and economies. ENSO modulation is thus one of the hottest topics in tropical climate study. Since its beginnings, the...
Nov 20, 2015 | Argos Forum, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology, Wildlife Monitoring
Polar bears and climate change A near real-time climate observation system for high latitudes Boom-bust nomads in a changing climate Triton moorings for the tropical ocean climate Sharpening climate change predictions for marine fishes What future for Crozet...
Sep 2, 2015 | Goniometer, News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
A glider deployed in the Coral Sea in May 2015 by the IMOS (Australia) developed technical problems, most likely due to a faulty memory card. The glider was recovered in September 2015, thanks the RXG-134. “ The gonio finder was quite helpful and was used for the...
Aug 31, 2015 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
The Argo Program Argo is an international program aimed at seeding the global ocean with 3000 profiling floats which measure temperature and salinity from surface to 2000 meters depth. As these floats are autonomous and tend to drift with the currents while at the...
Jul 27, 2015 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
Argos transmitters attached to a fishes in New Brunswick in 2014 were just recovered in Greenland and Ireland. The Argos tags are attached to selected salmon by the Atlantic Salmon Federation in an effort to try and discover the reasons for high mortality at sea....
Jul 15, 2015 | Marine Animals, News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology, Wildlife Monitoring
As of May 2015, a one-of-the-kind web portal named MEOP (Mammal Exploring the Ocean from Pole to Pole) provides operational access to the full international database of validated ocean observations collected by marine mammals such as seals, sea lions, and turtles....
