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

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

Unstoppable West Antarctic melt (narrated)

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

Video: Ocean Flows Under Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica

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

ARGO float animation #2

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 (3D-stereoscopic version)

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

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

Join NASA Earth scientists for a 360-degree view of our planet as they head into the field to study ice in Greenland and coral reefs in Hawaii.

Earth 360 Video: The Call of Science

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

Animated GIF: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich

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

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

GRACE global gravity animation

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

Greenland's thinning ice

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

This visualization shows total sea level change between 1992 and 2019, based on data collected from the TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, Jason-2, and Jason-3 satellites.

Video: 27-Year Sea Level Rise

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

Video: Antarctic Ice Mass Loss 2002-2020

A visualization of how sea level fluctuates around the world.

Monitoring 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

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

Video: Tracking 30 Years of Sea Level Rise

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

Video: NASA's Earth Minute - Greenland ice

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

Jason-3 begins mapping the ocean

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

Oceans Melting Greenland 9/22/16 update

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

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

West Antarctic collapse (non-narrated)

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

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

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

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