SSH and SST - Pacific Ocean

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.

El Niño/La Niña - (12/1996 - 01/2000)

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.

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.

NASA Climate Watcher Waves Goodbye

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...

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.

NASA and its partners announced the renaming of the mission, previously known as Sentinel-6A/Jason-CS.

Sea Surface Height 01/2006-04/2010

Sea Surface Height - Global Average from 1993 - 2011.

OSTM/Jason-2 - Data/ground track animation

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Air Force Base carrying the Jason-3 spacecraft. Liftoff was at 10:42 a.m. PST (1:42 p.m. EST).

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

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...

Experts from NASA, ESA, EUMETSAT, and NOAA discuss the upcoming launch of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich in a recorded live broadcast

Watch the Jason-3 Science Briefing from Friday, Jan 15, 2016 - panelists discussed the science and research of the Jason-3 mission.

OSTM/Jason-2 - All instruments plus data animation

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

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

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

For NASA JPL engineer Parag Vaze, studying Earth’s rising ocean has been a career three decades in the making.

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...

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

Sea Level Isn't Level - Why it matters

To provide scientists with essential information about global and regional changes in the seas, NASA will launch the Jason-3 satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.