Animated GIF: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich

This movie shows the evolution of several regions of the Greenland Ice Sheet between 2008 and 2300 based on three different climate scenarios.

Video: Greenland Ice Sheet - Three Futures

Visualization of the expanse of the annual minimum Arctic sea ice for each year from 1979 to 2014 as derived from SSMI data.

Annual Arctic sea ice minimum 1979-2014 with area graph

NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) and Operation IceBridge missions investigate Greenland's thinning ice sheets from above and below.

Greenland's thinning ice

Map of sea surface height measurements collected by Jason-3 during its first 10 days of orbit.

Jason-3 begins mapping the ocean

Visualization of the average yearly change in ice sheet mass during 2003-2010 over Greenland and Antarctica.

Ice sheet mass balance from GRACE

Visualization of sea surface height anomalies (SSHA) from January 1, 2015 to January 22, 2016.

Sea surface height anomaly

Visualization of the formation of an El Niño event towards the end of 2009 followed by a 2010 La Niña event.

2009 El Niño and 2010 La Niña

We know seas are rising and we know why. The urgent questions are by how much and how quickly.

Infographic: Sea level rise

Graphic showing reconciled estimate of glacier contributions to sea level rise.

Regional assessments of glacier mass

B-roll for media on the sea level-observing Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite.

Video: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Media Reel

Video: Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) Principal Investigator Josh Willis recaps an ambitious day out in the field.

Oceans Melting Greenland 9/22/16 update

Visualization of monthly changes in ocean bottom pressure data obtained by the GRACE satellites from November 2002 to January 2012.

Ocean bottom pressure from GRACE

Animated GIF of Oceans Melting Greenland GLISTIN-A instrument observing Greenland's glacier front; aircraft deploying ocean probes.

Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) GLISTIN-A & AXCTD - Animated GIF

Visualization of the locations of the ARGO buoy array over time (with faster camera move).

ARGO float animation #2

Zero- to nine-meter sea level rise scenario in the southeastern United States.

Sea level rise 'what ifs' in southeastern United States

Sea level rise 'what ifs' in the southeastern United States

A visualization shows ocean currents circulating Pine Island Bay and flowing under Pine Island Glacier.

Video: Ocean Flows Under Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica

Video: Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) Principal Investigator Josh Willis reports about perfect conditions in northwest Greenland that led to a great day for data collection.

Oceans Melting Greenland 9/24/16 update

Animation that uses Earth science data to measure physical oceanography parameters such as ocean currents, ocean winds, sea surface height and sea surface temperature.

The ocean – a driving force for weather and climate

Animation of the average yearly change in global land ice mass during 2003-2010 from all of the world's glaciers and ice caps (excluding Greenland and Antarctica).

Global mass balance from GRACE

The mean annual amplitude of total water storage on Earth in 2007 as measured by GRACE.

Total water storage from GRACE, 2007

Sea surface height-monitoring satellite Jason-3 liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Jason-3 liftoff on Falcon 9 rocket

Whiteboard animation on NASA's twin GRACE satellites that monitor Earth's gravity field to help scientists understand global water and ice distribution.

Video: NASA's Earth Minute - Scale in the sky

Animation showing “sea level fingerprints,” or patterns of rising and falling sea levels across the globe in response to changes in Earth’s gravitational and rotational fields.

Monthly changes in gravity affect sea level

An animation with voiceover narration showing the global ocean tides as a complex system of rotating and trapped waves with a mixture of frequencies.

Video: Global Ocean Tides

Images from GRACE satellite data show Greenland ice mass changes since 2003.

Greenland ice loss 2003-2013

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Animated GIF: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich

November 11, 2020

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