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

TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter sea level anomaly in the Pacific from September 15, 1996 to September 21, 1997.

El Niño: TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter sea level anomaly from September 15, 1996 to September 21, 1997

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

ARGO float animation #2

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

Melting ice, rising seas

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

Rising seas, by decade

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

22-year sea level rise - TOPEX/JASON

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

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.

Oceans Melting Greenland 9/24/16 update

A quick guide to the science behind sea level rise from an ice-loss perspective, what it means in relatable terms and why it matters.

Video: On thin ice: Why ice loss matters

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

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

Video: Sea surface temperature anomaly timeline: 1982-2017

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

Video: Sea level rise accelerates over time

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

Greenland ice flow

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

Video: NASA's Earth Minute - Greenland ice

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

Total water storage from GRACE, 2007

Images show changes in Antarctic ice mass since 2003.

Antarctic ice loss 2003-2013

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

RapidScat observes El Niño

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

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

Animated GIF: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich

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)

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

Video: 25 years of Antarctic land ice elevation change

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

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

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

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)

Explore how scientists determine glacial speed from space.

At glacial speed

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