SSH and SST - Indian Ocean

Jason-1 Spacecraft Animation

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.

Recorded live launch broadcast of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich

Sea Surface Height 01/2006-04/2010

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

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.

Jason-3 Animation

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...

NASA and its U.S. and international partners have teamed up to launch a new Earth-observing satellite called Sentinel-6B that will measure sea surface height of most of the planet’s ocean. These ob...

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

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

The joint U.S.-European Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich is the next in a line of Earth-observing satellites that will collect the most accurate data yet on sea level and how it changes over time. With ...

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

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...

Sea Surface Height - Global Average from 1993 - 2011.

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 World: How High is the Ocean?

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

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

TOPEX/Poseidon Ground Tracks

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

This animation illustrates the evolution of sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies (relative to the respective normal state) in the Pacific Ocean associated with the 2015-2016 El Niño.

SSH and SST - Global

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...