Our Rising Seas

Applications of Spaceborne Altimetry

El Niño/La Niña

Ocean Dynamic Topography

Jason-1 JPL Open House '99 Display

Mapping Global Ocean Circulation

Water & Energy

Ionospheric Total Electron Content

Jason-1 Fact Sheet

On Aug. 26, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. PT, NASA hosted a media teleconference to discuss recent insights on sea level rise and the continuing challenge of predicting how fast and how much sea level will ris...

Water Vapor

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

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...

Measuring El Niño & La Niña - JPL Open House '99 Display

Ocean Dynamic Topography

Earth Science

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

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.

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Variability of Ocean Dynamic Topography

Oceans' Role in Climate - Applications

Altimeter Mission Series

Pacific Decadal Oscillation flyer

Bringing Satellite Data Down to Earth

Tracking the Oceans' Height To Understand Earth's Climate

OSTM/Jason-2 insignia for launch vehicle