Animated GIF: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich

The great Ice Age glaciers rise and fall in thousands of years per second.

Video: Watch glaciers rise, fall in thousands of years per second

TOPEX-Poseidon altimeter sea level anomaly in the Pacific from August 1, 1996 to August 3, 1997.

El Niño: TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter sea level anomaly from August 1, 1996 to August 3, 1997

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

Video: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Media Reel

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

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

Ice sheet mass balance from GRACE

NASA is studying the Earth's ice and water to better understand how sea level rise might affect us all.

Melting ice, rising seas

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

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

Greenland's thinning ice

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

Oceans Melting Greenland 9/22/16 update

Animated GIF of Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) ship and airborne AIRGrav instrument.

Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) ship & airborne AIRGrav instrument

Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) ship & AIRGrav instrument - Animated GIF

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

TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter sea level anomaly in the Pacific from September 15, 1996 to September 21, 1997.

El Niño: TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter sea level anomaly from September 15, 1996 to September 21, 1997

Visualization showing total sea level change between 1992 and 2014, based on data from the TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1 and Jason-2 satellites.

22-year sea level rise - TOPEX/JASON

Local change and global rise of sea levels, as measured by satellites from 1993 through 2015.

Rising seas, by decade

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

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

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

Greenland ice loss 2003-2013

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

Jason-3 begins mapping the ocean

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

Infographic: Sea level rise

Data from TOPEX/Poseidon was used to produce a computer model of 16 days of tide height.

TOPEX/Poseidon flat earth tide height model

Explore Kaneohe Bay with NASA’s CORAL scientists. During field campaigns, scientists take in-water (in situ) measurements to validate the data from airborne instruments.

Video: Explore Kaneohe Bay with NASA's CORAL scientists

Graphic of global glacial mass loss and area summarized by region.

Regional rates of glacier loss for 2003 to 2009

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

Visualization of the locations of the ARGO buoy array over time.

ARGO float animation #1

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November 11, 2020

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