Water Vapor

El Niño is characterized by unusually warm ocean temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific. The warmer water associated with El Niño displaces colder water in the upper layer of the ocean caus...

Radiometer Installation Team - April 2007

This artist's concept show Jason-3 over the Amazon.

Jason-3

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite is lifted to vertical at Space Launch Complex 4

OSTM/Jason-2 LRA

Applications of Spaceborne Altimetry

Jason-1: First Image

TOPEX/Poseidon over Earth

TOPEX/Poseidon Collecting Data

These photos were taken during the Payload Attach Fitting (PAF) mating operation with Jason-1. (11/14/01) Photos: Scott Michel

Launch preparations are progressing! (11/21/01) Photos: Stacy Mitchell of John Hopkins APL/TIMED project

High Resolution Jason-1 launch images

Sea Level

Jason-1 LRA

Jason-3

On the left is Sea Surface Height Anomalies (SSHA) relative to the sea level mean (1993-2018). On the right is Global Mean Sea Level (GMSL) with the sea level trend as the straight line. The data a...

OSTM/Jason-2 Radiometer Antenna

Inside half of the Delta Clam shell faring

TOPEX/Poseidon launch

Radiometer Rework - April 2007

Mission team members perform acoustic tests of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite in a chamber outfitted with giant speakers that blast the spacecraft with sound. This is to ensure that the ...

Jason-3 Launch

t - 7 minutes - Photo: Tom Shain

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, Nov. 21, 2020, at 9:17 a.m. PST