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The Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS) programme updates its implementation plan (21 janvier 2013)
The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of the UNESCO publishes the new implementation plan of the Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS). The updated implementation plan copes with the new challenges in the field of monitoring sea level for a (...)Permanent GPS station at the Saint-Paul island tide gauge, Indian Ocean (21 April 2012)
Researchers from the LEGOS joint research unit (UMR5566, CNRS/Toulouse) in collaboration with the DT/INSU (UPS 855 CNRS/Brest) have installed a permanent GPS station at the Saint-Paul Island (38°41’S - 77°31 E) in the South Indian Ocean, on the GLOSS tide gauge site (...)Importance of wave age and resonance in storm surges: the case Xynthia, Bay of Biscay (7 January 2012)
Researchers from the joint research unit "Littoral, Environment and Societies" (LIENSs, CNRS / La Rochelle University, team Physical Dynamics of the Littoral) in collaboration with the Portuguese National Civil Engineering Lab (LNEC, Lisbon) have investigated the (...)Inventory of Sea Level Data in Need of Rescue (13 December 2011)
On behalf of GLOSS (Cover letter below), an effort has been initiated to learn of historic, non-computerized sea level data. If your affiliation has such historic records, could you please fill in the questionnaire below (in .doc format, clicking on the image orTwelfth Session of the GLOSS Group of Experts, Unesco, Paris, 7-11 November 2011 (5 October 2011)
The next meeting of the global sea-level observing programme (GLOSS) is taking place at Unesco, Paris, 9-11 November 2011. Two workshops will precede the event, respectively dealing with: – Storm surge monitoring and extreme sea levels, and the need forSatellite Altimeter Calibration and Deformation Monitoring using GNSS (3 May 2011)
Papers are invited for a special topic issue of Advances in Space Research (ASR) entitled “Satellite Altimeter Calibration and Deformation Monitoring using GNSS”. Global warming is a key scientific issue nowadays. Over the past decades, satellite altimetry hasReorganisation of SONEL, Tide gauge data and the national liaison agency (REFMAR) (16 February 2011)
One of the reasons for which SONEL was founded was to federate the tide gauge networks that exist in France, and ensure that emerging networks were properly incorporated. Although the project was initiated by B. Simon at the SHOM (1999) it subsequently ran into (...)Daily, monthly and annual mean sea levels (19 December 2010)
The data and graphs concerning daily, monthly and annual mean sea levels have been available on SONEL since October 2010 for the French stations (a link to the PSMSL is provided for international stations when the page specific to the station is identified and the (...)
