Watching Our Oceans

OSTM/Jason-2 - All instruments plus data animation

For NASA engineer Shannon Statham, building spacecraft is all about being creative.

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...

TOPEX/Poseidon Launch

TOPEX/Poseidon Instruments

TOPEX/Poseidon Ground Tracks

Oceans of Climate Change

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

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

El Niño/La Niña - (12/1996 - 01/2000)

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

Changing conditions in the Pacific have stirred up Earth’s largest ocean and redistributed its heat, piling up warm waters along U.S. Western shores and raising sea level in the process.

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

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 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...

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

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

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.

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

After living in coastal Virginia and seeing the effects of climate change firsthand, Ben Hamlington is now researching sea level rise at NASA JPL.

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.

Watch the Jason-3 Science Briefing from Friday, Jan 15, 2016 - panelists discussed the science and research of the Jason-3 mission.

Our World: How High is the Ocean?

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...

Sea level rise is an indicator that our planet is warming. When ice on land, such as mountain glaciers or the ice sheets of Greenland or Antarctica, melts, that water contributes to sea level rise.