GEODEVA3

Name: GEODEVA3
Start: 2009-04-03
End: 2009-04-18
Location: Southwest Pacific Ocean (140W)

Type	Oceanographic cruise
Set	This cruise is part of the set GEODEVA
Ship	Alis
Ship owner	IRD
Dates	03/04/2009 - 18/04/2009
Chief scientist(s)	BALLU Valérie
	LITTORAL ENVIRONNEMENT ET SOCIÉTÉS - UMR 7266 Institut du Littoral et de l'Environnement 2 rue Olympe de Gouges 17000 La Rochelle +33 (0)5 46 45 82 74 https://lienss.univ-larochelle.fr/
DOI	10.17600/9100020
Objective	Study on subsea, marine and terrestrial geodetics. Readings from three tidal gauges, kinematic GPS measurements of sea level vertical to the Banc Wusi tidal gauge. GPS waypoint measurements taken on land, on Torres and Banks islands.

Sea/Ocean

Southwest Pacific Ocean (140W)

(Vanuatu)

Ports

Port of departure : Noumea (New Caledonia)

Port of return : Noumea (New Caledonia)

Scientific Authority

INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS - UMR 7154, UMS 3454

1 rue Jussieu

75005 Paris

+33 (0)1 83 95 74 00

https://www.ipgp.fr/

Participating bodie(s)

IRD, MétéoFrance, Service Topographique du Vanuatu

Discipline(s)

PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
MARINE GEOSCIENCES

Code	Label	Quantity	PI
D05	Surface drifters/drifting buoys Larguer bouée pour MétéoFrance ; mesures hauteur d'eau avec bouée GPS.	-	BALLU Valérie
D09	Sea level (incl. bottom p. IES) 3 marégraphes SBE26 ou SBE26+ installés en permanence dans la zone	-	BALLU Valérie
D71	Current profiler (eg ADCP)	-	BALLU Valérie
G90	Other geosciences meas. Mesures de la hauteur d'eau par GPS cinématique avec l'ALIS et 1 bouée	-	BALLU Valérie
H71	Surface measurements underway (T,S) Mesures de routine avec les capteurs du bord	-	BALLU Valérie

Summary of measurements

-Readings from three permanently installed tidal gauges.
-Kinematic GPS measurements of sea level vertical to the Wusi tidal gauge in order to calculate its exact height with respect to the ellipsoid.
-GPS measurements on shore at MOTA and TORR points on Banks and Torres islands.

Location map

Positionning system

Geodetic system : WORLD GEODETIC SYSTEM 1984 = WGS84

Positioning system : GPS naturel

Joint document(s)

Bibliography of GEODEVA3

Data managed by SISMER

Bibliography

Publications

Ballu V., Bonnefond P., Calmant S., Bouin M. -N., Pelletier B., Laurain O., Crawford W. C., Baillard C., de Viron O. (2013). Using altimetry and seafloor pressure data to estimate vertical deformation offshore: Vanuatu case study. Advances In Space Research, 51(8), 1335-1351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2012.06.009

Simeoni Patricia, Ballu Valerie (2013). Le mythe des premiers réfugiés climatiques : mouvements de populations et changements environnementaux aux îles Torrès (Vanouatou, Mélanésie). Annales de Géographie, (685), 219-241. https://doi.org/10.3917/ag.685.0219

Gorman Meaghan K., Quinn Terrence M., Taylor Frederick W., Partin Judson W., Cabioch Guy, Austin James A., Jr., Pelletier Bernard, Ballu Valerie, Maes Christophe, Saustrup Steffen (2012). A coral-based reconstruction of sea surface salinity at Sabine Bank, Vanuatu from 1842 to 2007 CE. Paleoceanography, 27(PA3226), 1-13. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1029/2012PA002302 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00129/24064/

Ballu Valerie, Bouin Marie-Noelle, Simeoni Patricia, Crawford Wayne C., Calmant Stephane, Bore Jean-Michel, Kanas Tony, Pelletier Bernard (2011). Comparing the role of absolute sea-level rise and vertical tectonic motions in coastal flooding, Torres Islands (Vanuatu). Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America, 108(32), 13019-13022. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1102842108 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00144/25575/