Watching Our Oceans

TOPEX/Poseidon Ground Tracks

Sea Surface Height 01/2006-04/2010

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

Growing up in landlocked Zimbabwe, NASA JPL engineer Shailen Desai was far from the ocean but still experienced its effects on the climate. Now, he is contributing to an international effort to tra...

SSH and SST - Global

Our World: How High is the Ocean?

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

NASA Climate Watcher Waves Goodbye

Recorded live launch broadcast of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich

TOPEX/Poseidon Instruments

It's hard to "see" sea level rise by just looking at the ocean, but its effects are very real.

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

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.

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

It’s not only water processes that play a role in global sea level rise – ground movements can play a significant role as well.

SSH and SST - Pacific Ocean

For over 20 years NASA has been tracking the global surface topography of the ocean in order to understand the important role it plays in our daily lives. Climate change is causing our Ocean to war...

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.

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

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.

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...

This video discusses the water cycle, which is the movement of water around the Earth, and its importance to life. Changes to the water cycle affect climate and vice versa.

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.

A look at how NASA is dealing with the threat of sea level rise to its coastal infrastructure.

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