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Sea Level Rise
Overview
Earth’s seas are rising, a direct result of a changing climate. Ocean temperatures are increasing, leading to ocean expansion. And as ice sheets and glaciers melt, they add more water. A fleet of increasingly sophisticated instruments deployed by NASA across the oceans, on polar ice and in orbit, reveals significant changes among globally interlocking factors that are driving sea levels higher.
Visualizations
Additional Resources
NASA Field Research 2015
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Rising Seas: NASA on the Greenland Ice Sheet
Enjoy a deep dive into sea level rise research as NASA scientists and their colleagues discuss their research on and around the Greenland Ice Sheet. This is a condensed and edited version of a program originally broadacast on Aug. 28, 2015. To learn more about NASA research and the study of sea level rise, go to http://www.nasa.gov/goddard/risingseas || A quick preview of the sights and sounds captured this summer as researchers ventured out on the Greenland Ice Sheet. || For More Information || See [http://www.nasa.gov/goddard/risingseas](http://www.nasa.gov/goddard/risingseas) ||
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Aerials over Greenland
A reel of helicopter footage taken in July of 2015 over Greenland including a transit from Kangerlussuaq, Greenland to a field camp on the ice sheet, operated by UCLA's Larry Smith footage over the Ilulissat IceFjord and nearby glaciers. ||
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Greenland Beauty Shots
Views of Greenlandic scenery from Kangerlussuaq, the terminous of the Russell Glacier, and the Ilulissat region. ||
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Greenland Melt Water
Various scenes of water melting from the Greenland Ice Sheet on its way to the sea. ||
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Researchers in the Field
NASA, the National Science Foundation, and universities support a variety of field research in Greenland. || UCLA's Larry Smith, Vena Chu from UC Berkeley and other reserachers conduct work in the ablation, or melt zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The work included the deployment of floating sensors, conducting 72 continuous hours of melt water profiles, and ice mapping using fixed-wing drones. || Grace Andrews and her colleague sample melt water originating from the Russell Glacier as part of a study on C02 evasion led by Andrew Jacobson from Northwestern University. ||
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Greenland Icebergs
Iceberg footage in Disko Bay near Ilulissat, Greenland filmed in July, 2015. ||
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Operation IceBridge Arctic 2015 video series
For more IceBridge videos NASA’s Operation IceBridge has wrapped up its 2015 Arctic field campaign after covering a vast expanse of science targets during 33 different flights over land ice, sea ice, and glaciers. The airborne campaign flies over the Arctic and Antarctic every year measuring changes in the ice with instruments like radar and lasers. For more on IceBridge, visit NASA's IceBridge webpage. || The Helheim ExperienceTake a few minutes to sit back, put on your headphones, go full screen, and enjoy a birds-eye view of a vast expanse of Greenland's mountainous region near Helheim Glacier in eastern Greenland aboard a NASA C-130. Music courtesy Moby. ||