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

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

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

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

Infographic: Sea level rise

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

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

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

Video: 25 years of Antarctic land ice elevation change

Video: 25 years of Antarctic land ice elevation change anomalies (West Coast fly over)

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

TOPEX/Poseidon flat earth tide height model

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

ARGO float animation #2

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

Jason-3 begins mapping the ocean

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

Regional rates of glacier loss for 2003 to 2009

Take a 360-degree view of an iceberg and sea ice during Operation IceBridge flights over Greenland.

Video: Bird's eye view of an iceberg

A visualization of how sea level fluctuates around the world.

Monitoring sea level

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

Ice sheet mass balance from GRACE

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

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

Total water storage from GRACE, 2007

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

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

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

Video: Antarctic Ice Mass Loss 2002-2020

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

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

RapidScat observes El Niño

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

Rising seas, by decade

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

West Antarctic collapse (non-narrated)

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

Greenland ice loss 2003-2013

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

Multimedia

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

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