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Measuring Greenland's ice (poster)

Greenland's melting ice (poster)

A poster titled 'Measuring Greenland's Ice' depicting the various measurement mechanisms that will be utilized by the Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission.

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Oceans Melting Greenland

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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

Visualization of the expanse of the annual minimum Arctic sea ice for each year from 1979 to 2014 as derived from SSMI data.

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Annual Arctic sea ice minimum 1979-2014 with area graph
Annual Arctic sea ice minimum 1979-2014 with area graph

B-roll for media on the sea level-observing Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite.

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Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Media Reel
Video: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Media Reel

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

Explore how scientists determine glacial speed from space.

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At glacial speed
At glacial speed

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

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Greenland's thinning ice
Greenland's thinning ice

This animation compares sea surface salinity (saltiness) data from two NASA datasets from 2015 to 2017.

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Animation: Sea Surface Salinity Comparison (2015-2017)
Animation: Sea Surface Salinity (Saltiness) Comparison (2015-2017)

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

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Video: Ocean Flows Under Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica
Video: Ocean Flows Under Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica

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

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Greenland ice loss 2003-2013
Greenland ice loss 2003-2013

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

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

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

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

1997 and 2015 El Niño animations made from data collected by the TOPEX/Poseidon (1997) and the OSTM/Jason-2 (2015) satellites

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El Niño: 1997 vs. 2015
El Niño: 1997 vs. 2015

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

A visualization of U.S. East Coast ocean flows

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Video: Ocean Flow Vignettes
Video: Ocean Flow Vignettes

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

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

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Video: Tracking 30 Years of Sea Level Rise
Video: Tracking 30 Years of Sea Level Rise

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

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

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

Whiteboard animation on the basic science behind sea level rise.

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NASA's Earth Minute: Sea level rise
Video: NASA's Earth Minute - Sea level rise

Global sea level rise is accelerating incrementally over time rather than increasing at a steady rate, as previously thought.

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Sea level rise accelerates over time
Video: Sea level rise accelerates over time

The basics of sea level rise, expressed in everyday terms, and what it means for those on the coast.

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Rising tides: Understanding sea level rise
Video: Rising tides: Understanding sea level rise

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
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