SSH and SST - Pacific Ocean

TOPEX/Poseidon Launch

OSTM/Jason-2 - All instruments plus data animation

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...

Sea Surface Height - Global Average from 1993 - 2011.

Jason-3 Animation

El Niño/La Niña - (12/1996 - 01/2000)

Ice covers 10 percent of Earth's surface and helps moderate the planet's temperature.

Watching Our Oceans

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

QuickTime VR of TOPEX/Poseidon

Our World: How High is the Ocean?

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

The Jason-3 satellite, launched on January 17, 2016, is allowing scientists to continue a 23-year record of crucial ocean monitoring.

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,...

Our planet is changing. Our ocean is rising. And it affects us all. That’s why a new international satellite will continue the decades-long watch over our global ocean and help us better understand...

Fathoming the forces that determine global sea levels can be daunting. We present a guide to the basics of ocean surface topography.

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.

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...

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

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

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

For NASA scientist Severine Fournier, studying our planet knows no borders.

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

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.

Earth’s rising seas are some of the most visible signs of our warming planet. Over the last 23 years, NASA satellite missions have observed a steady rise in global sea levels as polar ice sheets me...