Students examine the two time series images to determine the differences between seasonal ice melt over water versus land.

Steve Nerem is the leader of NASA’s Sea Level Change team. His project, Observation-Driven Projections of Future Regional Sea Level Change, focuses on using NASA satellite and in situ observations and climate modeling to estimate future regional sea level change.

This activity is one of a series in the collection, The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change activities.