Oceans of Climate Change

For NASA JPL engineer Parag Vaze, studying Earth’s rising ocean has been a career three decades in the making.

SSH and SST - Indian Ocean

In many communities in the U.S., sea level rise is already a factor in people’s lives in the form of high-tide flooding.

Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich will join a long-standing family of Earth observing satellites from NASA and European partners.

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...

Sea Level Isn't Level - Why it matters

The ocean is responsible for Earth's mild climate and makes life on Earth possible for all creatures.

TOPEX/Poseidon Instruments

Karl and Seymour learn how carbon dioxide is formed in this sketch from The Lollygaggers, a global warming sketch comedy.

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...

Global sea level rise is accelerating incrementally over time rather than increasing at a steady rate, as previously thought, according to a new study based on 25 years of NASA and European satelli...

B-roll for media. The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich is an Earth-observing satellite that will collect data on sea level and how it changes over time. By measuring sea surface height, scientists world...

Jason-CS/Sentinel-6 - How they will work

This visualization shows total sea level change between 1992 and 2019, based on data collected from the TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, Jason-2, and Jason-3 satellites. Blue regions are where sea level ha...

Launching aboard the joint U.S.-European Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite is NASA’s next instrument that will help improve weather forecasting.

OSTM/Jason-2 - Data/ground track animation

One of the best ways to understand Earth's ocean is from the perspective of space.

On Aug. 26, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. PT, NASA hosted a media teleconference to discuss recent insights on sea level rise and the continuing challenge of predicting how fast and how much sea level will ris...

Recorded live launch broadcast of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich

Watch the Jason-3 Mission Briefing from Friday, Jan 15, 2016 - panelists gave an overview of the Jason-3 mission.

Here we provide side by side comparisons of Pacific Ocean sea surface height (SSH) anomalies of what is presently happening in 2015 with the Pacific Ocean signal during the famous 1997 El Niño.

NASA Climate Watcher Waves Goodbye

The Jason-3 satellite, launched on January 17, 2016, is allowing scientists to continue a 23-year record of crucial ocean monitoring.

Sea Surface Height - Global Average from 1993 - 2011.

NASA and its partners announced the renaming of the mission, previously known as Sentinel-6A/Jason-CS.