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

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

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

Greenland ice flow

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

Jason-3 begins mapping the ocean

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

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

Greenland's thinning ice

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)

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

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

Video: Greenland Ice Mass Loss 2002-2020

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

Measuring elevation changes on the Greenland ice sheet

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

Whiteboard animation on the basic science behind sea level rise.

Video: NASA's Earth Minute - Sea level rise

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

ARGO float animation #2

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

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

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

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

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

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