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

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

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

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

Video: Ocean Flows Under Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica

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

West Antarctic collapse (non-narrated)

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

Ice sheet mass balance from GRACE

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

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

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

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

TOPEX-Poseidon altimeter sea level anomaly in the Pacific from August 1, 1996 to August 3, 1997.

El Niño: TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter sea level anomaly from August 1, 1996 to August 3, 1997

Animation showing mass changes over Greenland with a colorbar, graph and clock overlay.

Greenland ice sheet mass changes from NASA GSFC GRACE mascon solutions with banded color scale

Explore how scientists determine glacial speed from space.

At glacial speed

Whiteboard animation on the basic science behind sea level rise.

Video: NASA's Earth Minute - Sea level rise

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

Animated GIF: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich

A poster titled 'Measuring Greenland's Ice' depicting the various measurement mechanisms that will be utilized by the Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission.

Measuring Greenland's ice (poster)

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)

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

Video: Sea surface temperature anomaly timeline: 1982-2017

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

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

Video: NASA's Earth Minute - Greenland ice

A visualization of U.S. East Coast ocean flows

Video: Ocean Flow Vignettes

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

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

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

Greenland's thinning ice

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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