Our Rising Seas

Tracking the Oceans' Height To Understand Earth's Climate

Jason-1 Fact Sheet

TOPEX/Poseidon Poster (no text)

Oceans' Role in Climate - Jason-1

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.

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.

Variability of Ocean Dynamic Topography

Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft logo

OSTM/Jason-2 insignia for launch vehicle

El Niño Poster

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...

Earth’s global sea levels are rising – and are doing so at an accelerating rate.

Earth Science

CNES Jason Logo

Launched on January 17, 2016, Jason-3 is a partnership that includes NOAA, NASA, CNES, and EUMETSAT.  The map shown here was generated using sea surface height measurements from the first 10 days (...

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 Level

Jason-1 and TOPEX/Poseidon Bookmark

For NASA engineer Shannon Statham, building spacecraft is all about being creative.

Jason-1 Poster

El Niño/La Niña

Ionospheric Total Electron Content

Sea Level

Wave Height

Ocean Dynamic Topography