SSH and SST - Indian Ocean

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...

Our World: How High is the Ocean?

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

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,...

Watching Our Oceans

Sea Surface Height - Global Average from 1993 - 2011.

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

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...

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

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

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

QuickTime VR of TOPEX/Poseidon

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

Global sea level rise is accelerating incrementally over time rather than increasing at a steady rate, as previously thought, according to a new study based on 25 years of NASA and European satelli...

TOPEX/Poseidon Ground Tracks

Decades of Discovery - How altimeters help us every day.

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.

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...

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.

TOPEX/Poseidon Launch

This visualization shows total sea level change between 1992 and 2019, based on data collected from the TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, Jason-2, and Jason-3 satellites. Blue regions are where sea level ha...

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

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.

OSTM/Jason-2 - Data/ground track animation

El Niño/La Niña - (12/1996 - 01/2000)