Articles | Volume 9, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-9-901-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-9-901-2013
Review article
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29 Oct 2013
Review article |  | 29 Oct 2013

From satellite altimetry to Argo and operational oceanography: three revolutions in oceanography

P. Y. Le Traon

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