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Watching Our Oceans
Published:
May 20, 2008
Watching Our Oceans
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SSH and SST - Indian Ocean
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Jason-1 Spacecraft Animation
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SSH and SST - Global
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Decades of Discovery - How altimeters help us every day.
Decades of Discovery
Sea Surface Height - Global Average from 1993 - 2011.
Sea Surface Height 1993 - 2011
It's hard to "see" sea level rise by just looking at the ocean, but its effects are very real.
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After living in coastal Virginia and seeing the effects of climate change firsthand, Ben Hamlington is now researching sea level rise at NASA JPL.
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OSTM/Jason-2 - All instruments plus data animation
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One of the best ways to understand Earth's ocean is from the perspective of space.
Climate Change and the Global Ocean
Experts from NASA, ESA, EUMETSAT, and NOAA discuss the upcoming launch of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich in a recorded live broadcast
News Update on Launch of the Sea Level-Monitoring Satellite, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich
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...
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A look at how NASA is dealing with the threat of sea level rise to its coastal infrastructure.
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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...
27-year Sea Level Rise - TOPEX/JASON
El Niño/La Niña - (12/1996 - 01/2000)
El Niño/La Niña - (12/1996 - 01/2000)
TOPEX/Poseidon Instruments
TOPEX/Poseidon Instruments
The Jason-2 satellite sees something brewing in the Pacific. Researchers say it could be a significant El Niño with implications for global weather and climate.
El Niño - Is 2014 the New 1997?
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 Surface Height Anomalies and Global Mean Sea Level
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Rising Waters: High Tide Flooding
