Measuring Greenland's ice (poster)

A visualization of how sea level fluctuates around the world.

Monitoring sea level

Animated GIF of Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) ship and airborne AIRGrav instrument.

Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) ship & airborne AIRGrav instrument

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

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 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

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

An animation shows global sea level trends from 1993 to 2022 as observed by several satellite missions.

Video: Tracking 30 Years of Sea Level Rise

Visualization of the locations of the ARGO buoy array over time.

ARGO float animation #1

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

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

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.

Melting ice, rising seas

Whiteboard animation on the basic science behind sea level rise.

Video: NASA's Earth Minute - Sea level rise

Video: 25 years of Antarctic land ice elevation change

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

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

Total water storage from GRACE, 2007

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

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

Images from GRACE satellite data show Greenland ice mass changes since 2003.

Greenland ice loss 2003-2013

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 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)

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

Video: NASA's Earth Minute - Greenland ice

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

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

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

GRACE global gravity animation

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

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Measuring Greenland's ice (poster)

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