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

Fly in 360 degrees over Greenland’s craggy glaciers and other ice formations from NASA’s P-3 aircraft.

Video: Greenland's ice from above

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 animation compares sea surface salinity (saltiness) data from two NASA datasets from 2015 to 2017.

Animation: Sea Surface Salinity Comparison (2015-2017)

Animation: Sea Surface Salinity (Saltiness) Comparison (2015-2017)

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

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

Jason-3 begins mapping the ocean

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

Melting ice, rising seas

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

ARGO float animation #1

A visualization of how sea level fluctuates around the world.

Monitoring sea level

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

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

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

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

Video: Antarctic Ice Mass Loss 2002-2020

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

Video: NASA's Earth Minute - Greenland ice

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

West Antarctic collapse (non-narrated)

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

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

Measuring elevation changes on the Greenland ice sheet

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

TOPEX/Poseidon flat earth tide height model

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

Video: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Media Reel

Visualization of the expanse of the annual minimum Arctic sea ice for each year from 1979 to 2014 as derived from SSMI data.

Annual Arctic sea ice minimum 1979-2014 with area graph

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

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

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

Sea surface height anomaly

Animation of how ice is naturally transported from interior topographic divides to the coast via glaciers.

Greenland ice flow

Explore how scientists determine glacial speed from space.

At glacial speed

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

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