Sea Level Change: Multimedia - Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) ship & AIRGrav instrument

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

Regional rates of glacier loss for 2003 to 2009

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

Visualization of a gravity model created with data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE).

GRACE global gravity animation

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

Infographic: Sea level rise

The basics of sea level rise, expressed in everyday terms, and what it means for those on the coast.

Video: Rising tides: Understanding sea level rise

Animation showing changes in Antarctic ice mass since 2002 based on satellite data.

Video: Antarctic Ice Mass Loss 2002-2020

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

Greenland ice loss 2003-2013

Animation of the West Antarctic region under study by JPL researchers, including glacier velocity data.

West Antarctic collapse (non-narrated)

NASA JPL-UC Irvine glaciologist Eric Rignot explains how glaciers in West Antarctica are changing.

Unstoppable West Antarctic melt (narrated)

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

Video: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Media Reel

Images show changes in Antarctic ice mass since 2003.

Antarctic ice loss 2003-2013

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

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

Regional assessments of glacier mass

A visualization of U.S. East Coast ocean flows

Video: Ocean Flow Vignettes

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

Oceans Melting Greenland 9/28/16 update

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

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

ARGO float animation #2

This animation shows how global sea levels have risen more than 80 millimeters (3.15 inches) over the past three decades, which is like covering the U.S. in about 4 meters (about 13 feet) of water over that period.

Animation: Global Sea Level Change (1992-2017)

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 that captures sea surface temperature anomalies around the world from 1982 to 2017.

Video: Sea surface temperature anomaly timeline: 1982-2017

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

Melting ice, rising seas

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

RapidScat observes El Niño

Accumulated change in the elevation of the Greenland ice sheet between 2003 and 2012.

Measuring elevation changes on the Greenland ice sheet

1997 and 2015 El Niño animations made from data collected by the TOPEX/Poseidon (1997) and the OSTM/Jason-2 (2015) satellites

El Niño: 1997 vs. 2015

Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich will join a long-standing family of Earth-observing satellites from NASA and European partners, including EUMETSAT and the French space agency CNES.

Video: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Satellite Family Tree

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

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