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The February 2012 GlobWave Newsletter is now available.

A recent study by the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) used GlobWave data to examine the climatic factors affecting piracy in the Indian Ocean. Due to the security problems in the region, no in situ measurements were possible, meaning GlobWave data was uniquely placed to provide the regular, accurate and historic wind and wave height information needed.

A recent study by Oceanweather Inc used GlobWave altimeter data to scan for global occurrences of storm peaks, where significant wave height exceeds 12 m.

Ifremer have just released a new altimeter merged database. This merged database contains altimeter SWH measurements collected almost continuously over a 20-year time period from the seven altimeter missions; ERS-1 & 2, TOPEX-Poseidon, GEOSAT Follow-ON (GFO), Jason-1, Jason-2 and ENVISAT. This new database contains additional calibration information and recalibrated and reprocessed datasets, which have been collated into homogeneous daily data files to aid usage.

The presentations from the second GlobWave User Consultation Meeting that took place in Cork, Ireland on the 5th and 6th October 2011 are now available to download here.

Click on the relevant link to download in .pdf format or get in contact with the GlobWave team for presentations in the original Microsoft PowerPoint format.

ESA will soon be releasing a reprocessed dataset of ERS-1 & ERS-2 SAR Wave Mode data.

An article describing the most commonly used software packages for viewing and processing GlobWave netCDF datasets has been placed here.

Ifremer have created a python script, called getgranulelist, that can be used to gain access to GlobWave L2P data that matches a user-defined area and time period.

An ESA User Consultation Meeting (UCM) is being held during 7-9 March 2012 at Ifremer, Brest (France) to bring users and experts in the field of EO (calibration, validation, data merging, algorithm development) and service delivery together to present their detailed requirements for ocean surface current products and services.

Murray Brown has developed a lesson using GlobWave Altimeter data to teach users how to download and visualize point wave height datasets. Please visit here for more details.