Subsidence

An animation shows global sea level trends from 1993 to 2022 as observed by several satellite missions.

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

A visualization of U.S. East Coast ocean flows

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

Animated GIF of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite, scheduled to launch in November 2020.

Global sea level rise is accelerating incrementally over time rather than increasing at a steady rate, as previously thought.

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

Explore how scientists determine glacial speed from space.

Video: Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) Principal Investigator Josh Willis recaps the last leg of the campaign's survey of northwest Greenland.

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.

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

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

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

Image of ocean winds near the surface as observed by NASA's ISS-RapidScat on the International Space Station.

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

A poster titled 'Measuring Greenland's Ice' depicting the various measurement mechanisms that will be utilized by the Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission.

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.

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

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

Video of a new, detailed map of the bedrock beneath Antarctic ice.

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

Whiteboard animation explaining Greenland's melting ice sheet as climate change's canary in a coal mine.

Whiteboard animation on the basic science behind sea level rise.

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

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