TOPEX/Poseidon Instruments

Recorded live launch broadcast of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich

Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Launch footage

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

The ocean-observing Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Nov. 21, 2020 at 12:17 p.m. EST

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...

Oceans of Climate Change

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

Decades of Discovery - How altimeters help us every day.

Jason-1 Spacecraft Animation

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?

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,...

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...

Sea Surface Height - Global Average from 1993 - 2011.

SSH and SST - Pacific Ocean

SSH and SST - Indian Ocean

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

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

QuickTime VR of TOPEX/Poseidon

Sea Surface Height 01/2006-04/2010

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.

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...

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...

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.