TOPEX/Poseidon Instruments

Jason-3 Animation

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

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.

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.

Watch the Jason-3 Mission Briefing from Friday, Jan 15, 2016 - panelists gave an overview of the Jason-3 mission.

OSTM/Jason-2 - All instruments plus data 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...

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

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...

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

NASA Climate Watcher Waves Goodbye

SSH and SST - Indian Ocean

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.

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...

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 ...

After living in coastal Virginia and seeing the effects of climate change firsthand, Ben Hamlington is now researching sea level rise at NASA JPL.

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

Sea Surface Height 01/2006-04/2010

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

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.

One of the best ways to understand Earth's ocean is from the perspective of space.

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...

El Niño/La Niña - (12/1996 - 01/2000)

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