SSH and SST - Pacific Ocean

SSH and SST - Indian Ocean

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

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

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.

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

TOPEX/Poseidon Ground Tracks

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...

OSTM/Jason-2 - Data/ground track animation

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

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.

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...

TOPEX/Poseidon Instruments

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

Recorded live launch broadcast of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich

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...

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

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

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

Greenland and Antarctica are home to most of the world's glacial ice – including its only two ice sheets – making them areas of particular interest to scientists.

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

Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Launch footage

Sea Surface Height 01/2006-04/2010

Sea Level Isn't Level - Why it matters

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

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.