Our Rising Seas

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

TOPEX/Poseidon Fact Sheet

Jason-1 5th Anniversary/Ocean Literacy Bookmark

Wind Speed

How We Fly Our Satellite- JPL Open House '99 Display

Earth Science

TOPEX/Poseidon Measurement System

Sea Surface Height

Oceans' Role in Climate - Jason-1

Altimeter Applications - JPL Open House '99

TOPEX/Poseidon Measurement System

A Year in the Life Of El Niño

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...

Oceans' Role in Climate - Applications

Jason-1 JPL Open House '99 Display

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

Growing up in landlocked Zimbabwe, NASA JPL engineer Shailen Desai was far from the ocean but still experienced its effects on the climate. Now, he is contributing to an international effort to tra...

TOPEX/Poseidon JPL Open House '99 Display

Estudio de seguimiento de la altura de los océanos para comprender el clima terrestre

Jason-1 Fact Sheet

Sea Level

Pacific Decadal Oscillation flyer

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

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...

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