SASSIE Arctic Field Campaign ALTO/ALAMO Profiling Float Data Fall 2022 Version 1

Description

The Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge (SASSIE) project is a NASA experiment that aims to understand how salinity anomalies in the upper ocean generated by melting sea ice affect sea surface temperature (SST), stratification, and subsequent sea-ice growth. SASSIE involved a field campaign that sampled the transition from summer melt to autumn ice advance in the Beaufort Sea during August-October 2022, making intensive in situ and remote sensing observations within ~200 km of the sea ice edge. This dataset contains temperature and salinity measurements collected by ALTO and Air Launched Autonomous Micro Observer (ALAMO) profiling floats deployed in the Beaufort Sea. Floats were programmed to stop profiling to the surface or transmitting data once they detected that they were beneath sea ice, but will continue collecting data. Future versions if this dataset will include data collected after Fall 2022. Data are available in netCDF format.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
33 SASSIE Overview Document https://salinity.oceansciences.org/docs/SASSIE_overview.pdf
22 Thumbnail https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/Podaac/thumbnails/SASSIE_L2_ALTO_ALAMO_FLOATS_V1.jpg
21 WHOI ALAMO Program website https://alamo.whoi.edu/about/
21 Dataset Landing Page https://doi.org/10.5067/SASSIE-PFLT2
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FSASSIE-PFLT2
21 SASSIE Project Website https://salinity.oceansciences.org/sassie.htm
21 Field Campaign and Instrument Overview http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/sassie
21 Data Use and Citation Policy https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/CitingPODAAC
21 Browse granule search results in Earthdata Search https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/virtual-directory/collections/C2638311700-POCLOUD

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  • salinity-density
  • oceans
  • ocean-temperature
  • earth-science

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