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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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Antarctic ice loss 2003-2013

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

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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

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

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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

Images created from GRACE data showing changes in Antarctic ice mass since 2002.

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Antarctic ice loss 2002-2016

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

Whiteboard animation on the basic science behind sea level rise.

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Video: NASA's Earth Minute - Sea level rise

TOPEX-Poseidon altimeter sea level anomaly in the Pacific from August 1, 1996 to August 3, 1997.

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

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

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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

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

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This movie shows the evolution of several regions of the Greenland Ice Sheet between 2008 and 2300 based on three different climate scenarios.

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Video: Greenland Ice Sheet - Three Futures

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

Visualization of the locations of the ARGO buoy array over time (with faster camera move).

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ARGO float animation #2

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

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

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

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

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

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