Our Rising Seas

Applications of Spaceborne Altimetry

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

Oceans' Role in Climate - Applications

Whale Census and Habitat

Water & Energy

Wind Speed

TOPEX/Poseidon Fact Sheet

Jason-1 Pin

Mapping Global Ocean Circulation

Oceans' Role in Climate - Jason-1

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

TOPEX/Poseidon Measurement System

Jason-1 and TOPEX/Poseidon Bookmark

Jason-1 Poster

Greenland and Antarctica are home to most of the world's glacial ice – including its only two ice sheets – making them areas of particular interest to scientists.

Jason-1: First Image

Jason-1 5th Anniversary/Ocean Literacy Bookmark

Natural Hazards

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

Wave Height

Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich fairing logo

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.

Jason-1 Fact Sheet

Ocean Dynamic Topography