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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

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

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

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

Explore how scientists determine glacial speed from space.

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At glacial speed
At glacial speed

Local change and global rise of sea levels, as measured by satellites from 1993 through 2015.

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Rising seas, by decade
Rising seas, by decade

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

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)

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

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

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

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

Animation of the West Antarctic region under study by JPL researchers, including glacier velocity data.

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West Antarctic collapse (non-narrated)
West Antarctic collapse (non-narrated)

Video: 25 years of Antarctic land ice elevation change

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

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 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

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

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NASA's Earth Minute: Greenland ice
Video: NASA's Earth Minute - Greenland ice

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 (3D-stereoscopic version)
2009 El Niño and 2010 La Niña (3D-stereoscopic version)

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)

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

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

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

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

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 “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