Watching Our Oceans

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

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...

SSH and SST - Indian Ocean

Sea levels across the globe are rising as a result of a changing climate — and the rate at which they are rising is accelerating. NASA Science Live was recorded Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020, and featured...

A key ocean observation satellite has been named after Earth scientist Michael Freilich

NASA Climate Watcher Waves Goodbye

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.

The Argo stop-motion animation aims to inspire children (and adults) to engage with marine science. It is quirky, fun and informative at the same time. The animation explains what an Argo float is,...

This animation illustrates the evolution of sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies (relative to the respective normal state) in the Pacific Ocean associated with the 2015-2016 El Niño.

Our World: How High is the Ocean?

SSH and SST - Pacific Ocean

Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Launch footage

Greenland and Antarctica are home to most of the world's glacial ice – including its only two ice sheets – making them areas of particular interest to scientists.

Oceans of Climate Change

TOPEX/Poseidon Ground Tracks

Sea Surface Height 01/2006-04/2010

Recorded live launch broadcast of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich

SSH and SST - Global

Experts from NASA, ESA, EUMETSAT, and NOAA discuss the upcoming launch of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich in a recorded live broadcast

TOPEX/Poseidon Instruments

To provide scientists with essential information about global and regional changes in the seas, NASA will launch the Jason-3 satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

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

QuickTime VR of TOPEX/Poseidon

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...