SSH and SST - Pacific Ocean

SSH and SST - Global

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

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

Decades of Discovery - How altimeters help us every day.

Our World: How High is the Ocean?

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

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.

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

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

Sea Level Isn't Level - Why it matters

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

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

TOPEX/Poseidon Launch

Earth’s global sea levels are rising – and are doing so at an accelerating rate.

B-roll for media. The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich is an Earth-observing satellite that will collect data on sea level and how it changes over time. By measuring sea surface height, scientists world...

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.

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

El Niño/La Niña - (12/1996 - 01/2000)

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

Recorded live launch broadcast of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich

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.

OSTM/Jason-2 - All instruments plus data animation

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

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.