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Watching Our Oceans
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May 20, 2008
Watching Our Oceans
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NASA and its partners announced the renaming of the mission, previously known as Sentinel-6A/Jason-CS.
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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.
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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...
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