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

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

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

Video: Ocean Flows Under Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica

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

Total water storage from GRACE, 2007

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

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 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

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

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

A visualization of how sea level fluctuates around the world.

Monitoring sea level

We know seas are rising and we know why. The urgent questions are by how much and how quickly.

Infographic: Sea level rise

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

Unstoppable West Antarctic melt (narrated)

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 monthly changes in ocean bottom pressure data obtained by the GRACE satellites from November 2002 to January 2012.

Ocean bottom pressure from GRACE

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

Video: 25 years of Antarctic land ice elevation change

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

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

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

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

Animated GIF: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich

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

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

ARGO float animation #2

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

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

GRACE global gravity animation

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

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

A visualization of U.S. East Coast ocean flows

Video: Ocean Flow Vignettes

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

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