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An animation with voiceover narration showing the global ocean tides as a complex system of rotating and trapped waves with a mixture of frequencies.

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Video: Global Ocean Tides
Video: Global Ocean Tides

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

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Animated GIF: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich
Animated GIF: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich

TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter sea level anomaly in the Pacific from September 15, 1996 to September 21, 1997.

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El Niño: TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter sea level anomaly from September 15, 1996 to September 21, 1997
El Niño: TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter sea level anomaly from September 15, 1996 to September 21, 1997

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

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 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).

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Global mass balance from GRACE
Global mass balance from GRACE

Visualization showing total sea level change between 1992 and 2014, based on data from the TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1 and Jason-2 satellites.

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22-year sea level rise - TOPEX/JASON
22-year sea level rise - TOPEX/JASON

Sea surface height-monitoring satellite Jason-3 liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

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Jason-3 liftoff on Falcon 9 rocket
Jason-3 liftoff on Falcon 9 rocket

Data from TOPEX/Poseidon was used to produce a computer model of 16 days of tide height.

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TOPEX/Poseidon flat earth tide height model
TOPEX/Poseidon flat earth tide height model

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

Video: Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) Principal Investigator Josh Willis recaps an ambitious day out in the field.

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Oceans Melting Greenland 9/22/16 update
Oceans Melting Greenland 9/22/16 update

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

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GRACE global gravity animation
GRACE global gravity animation

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

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

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

Explore how scientists determine glacial speed from space.

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At glacial speed
At glacial speed

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

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Ocean bottom pressure from GRACE
Ocean bottom pressure from GRACE

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)

Graphic showing reconciled estimate of glacier contributions to sea level rise.

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Regional assessments of glacier mass
Regional assessments of glacier mass

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 visualization of how sea level fluctuates around the world.

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Monitoring sea level
Monitoring sea level

The great Ice Age glaciers rise and fall in thousands of years per second.

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Video: Watch glaciers rise, fall in thousands of years per second
Video: Watch glaciers rise, fall in thousands of years per second

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.

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Animation: Global Sea Level Change (1992-2017)
Animation: Global Sea Level Change (1992-2017)

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

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