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Protecting the Pacific Important Pieces of the Regional Conservation Puzzle [PDF]

, 2014
The Pacific, Earth's largest ocean, is a complex ecosystem that supports life both at sea and on shore. Protecting this biodiversity is vital, which is why The Pew Charitable Trusts takes a comprehensive approach to ocean conservation in the Pacific ...

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Performances Study of Interferometric Radar Altimeters: from the Instrument to the Global Mission Definition

Sensors, 2006
The main limitations of standard nadir-looking radar altimeters have been knownfor long. They include the lack of coverage (intertrack distance of typically 150 km for theT/P / Jason tandem), and the spatial resolution (typically 2 km for T/P and Jason),
Anny Cazenave, Laurent Phalippou, Ernesto Rodriguez, Jean-Claude Souyris, Patrick Vincent, Vivien Enjolras   +5 more
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From Observation to Information and Users: The Copernicus Marine Service Perspective

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019
The Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS) provides regular and systematic reference information on the physical and biogeochemical ocean and sea-ice state for the global ocean and the European regional seas.
Pierre Yves Le Traon, Antonio Reppucci, Enrique Alvarez Fanjul, Lotfi Aouf, Arno Behrens, Maria Belmonte, Abderrahim Bentamy, Laurent Bertino, Vittorio Ernesto Brando, Matilde Brandt Kreiner, Mounir Benkiran, Thierry Carval, Stefania A. Ciliberti, Hervé Claustre, Emanuela Clementi, Giovanni Coppini, Gianpiero Cossarini, Marta De Alfonso Alonso-Muñoyerro, Anne Delamarche, Gerald Dibarboure, Frode Dinessen, Marie Drevillon, Yann Drillet, Yannice Faugere, Vicente Fernández, Andrew Fleming, M. Isabel Garcia-Hermosa, Marcos García Sotillo, Gilles Garric, Florent Gasparin, Cedric Giordan, Marion Gehlen, Marilaure L. Gregoire, Stephanie Guinehut, Mathieu Hamon, Chris Harris, Fabrice Hernandez, Fabrice Hernandez, Jørgen B. Hinkler, Jacob Hoyer, Juha Karvonen, Susan Kay, Robert King, Thomas Lavergne, Benedicte Lemieux-Dudon, Leonardo Lima, Chongyuan Mao, Matthew J. Martin, Simona Masina, Angelique Melet, Bruno Buongiorno Nardelli, Glenn Nolan, Ananda Pascual, Jenny Pistoia, Atanas Palazov, Jean Francois Piolle, Marie Isabelle Pujol, Anne Christine Pequignet, Elisaveta Peneva, Begoña Pérez Gómez, Loic Petit de la Villeon, Nadia Pinardi, Andrea Pisano, Sylvie Pouliquen, Rebecca Reid, Elisabeth Remy, Rosalia Santoleri, John Siddorn, Jun She, Joanna Staneva, Ad Stoffelen, Marina Tonani, Luc Vandenbulcke, Karina von Schuckmann, Gianluca Volpe, Cecilie Wettre, Anna Zacharioudaki   +76 more
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Long Time No Ocean

Lateral, 2014
Words on flagging banners are cut out, with letters left hanging; phrases like “Long Time No Ocean” become difficult to read. Language here functions in dual ways as both a communicative tool and an evocative form.
Lynn Sullivan
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LABEX L-IPSL Arctic Metadata Portal

Data Science Journal, 2016
The Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL) encompasses a wide diversity of projects that focus on the Arctic. From these observations the IPSL has generated a large number of datasets gathering Arctic observations.
Laura Cordero-Llana, Karim Ramage, Kathy S. Law, Philippe Keckhut   +3 more
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Image processing for smart browsing of ocean colour data products and subsequent incorporation into a multi-modal sensing framework [PDF]

, 2010
Ocean colour is defined as the water hue due to the presence of tiny plants containing the pigment chlorophyll, sediments and coloured dissolved organic material and so water colour can provide valuable information on coastal ecosystems.
Diamond, Dermot, Hayes, Jer, O'Connor, Edel, O'Connor, Noel E., Smeaton, Alan F., Ó Conaire, Ciarán   +5 more
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Trawling Through the Five Gyres: A Microplastic Research Study

Current: The Journal of Marine Education
Plastic pollution is a major problem in the world’s oceans (Hale et al., 2020). It is estimated that 10–28 billion pounds of trash entered the oceans in 2010 alone (Jambeck et al., 2015). This plastic is mostly microplastics, or plastic bits smaller than
Meredith Seeley, Sarah Nuss, Bethany Smith   +2 more
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MONICEPH project: Monitoring cephalopods during whale-watching activity in the Azores (2020-2024) [PDF]

Biodiversity Data Journal
The study of oceanic cephalopods off the Azores Archipelago began decades ago with the analysis of stomach contents from sperm whales that were hunted for the whaling industry.
Stéphanie Suciu, Jean-Luc Jung, José Azevedo   +2 more
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Jack London: a writing sailor, a sailing writer

Crossroads, 2014
The following paper analyzes how the experience of sailing shaped Jack London’s life and works. On the one hand, the paper recounts those events from the writer’s biography which contributed to his emotional attachment to the sea and created a realistic ...
Weronika Łaszkiewicz
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Hypsometry, Volume and Physiography of the Arctic Ocean and Their Paleoceanographic Implications [PDF]

, 2003
Recent analyses of the International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO) grid model include: Hypsometry (the distribution of surface area at various depths); ocean volume distribution; and physiographic provinces [Jakobsson 2002; Jakobsson et ...
Grantz, Arthur, Jakobsson, Martin, Kristoffersen, Yngue, Macnab, Ron   +3 more
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