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A visualization of how sea level fluctuates around the world.

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Monitoring sea level
Monitoring sea level

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.

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Video: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Satellite Family Tree
Video: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Satellite Family Tree

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.

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Oceans Melting Greenland 9/24/16 update
Oceans Melting Greenland 9/24/16 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.

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Monthly changes in gravity affect sea level
Monthly changes in gravity affect sea level

Visualization of the formation of an El Niño event towards the end of 2009 followed by a 2010 La Niña event.

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2009 El Niño and 2010 La Niña
2009 El Niño and 2010 La Niña

Graphic of global glacial mass loss and area summarized by region.

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Regional rates of glacier loss for 2003 to 2009
Regional rates of glacier loss for 2003 to 2009

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

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Melting ice, rising seas
Melting ice, rising seas

Images show changes in Antarctic ice mass since 2003.

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Antarctic ice loss 2003-2013
Antarctic ice loss 2003-2013

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

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

Video: Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) Principal Investigator Josh Willis recaps the last leg of the campaign's survey of northwest Greenland.

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Oceans Melting Greenland 9/28/16 update
Oceans Melting Greenland 9/28/16 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.

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On thin ice: Why ice loss matters
Video: On thin ice: Why ice loss matters

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

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glacier flyover
Video: Greenland's ice from above

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

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RapidScat observes El Niño
RapidScat observes El Niño

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

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Total water storage from GRACE, 2007
Total water storage from GRACE, 2007

Animation that uses Earth science data to measure physical oceanography parameters such as ocean currents, ocean winds, sea surface height and sea surface temperature.

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The ocean – a driving force for weather and climate
The ocean – a driving force for weather and climate

Take a 360-degree view of an iceberg and sea ice during Operation IceBridge flights over Greenland.

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iceberg flyover
Video: Bird's eye view of an iceberg

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.

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Earth 360 Video: The Call of Science
Earth 360 Video: The Call of Science

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

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Greenland ice flow
Greenland ice flow

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

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Sea surface height anomaly
Sea surface height anomaly

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

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Unstoppable (West Antarctic melt) – narrated
Unstoppable West Antarctic melt (narrated)

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

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Ice sheet mass balance from GRACE
Ice sheet mass balance from GRACE

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

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Jason-3 begins mapping the ocean
Jason-3 begins mapping the ocean

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

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Infographic: Sea level rise
Infographic: Sea level rise

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.

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video of divers
Video: Explore Kaneohe Bay with NASA's CORAL scientists

Whiteboard animation on NASA's twin GRACE satellites that monitor Earth's gravity field to help scientists understand global water and ice distribution.

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NASA's Earth Minute: Scale in the sky
Video: NASA's Earth Minute - Scale in the sky