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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| View documentation related to this dataset | HTML | Field Campaign and Instrument Overview | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | HTML | WHOI ALAMO Program website | Open resource |
| Download this dataset through Earthdata Search | HTML | Browse granule search results in Earthdata Search | Open resource |
| This dataset's landing page | HTML | Dataset Landing Page | Open resource |
| View this dataset's data citation policy | HTML | Data Use and Citation Policy | Open resource |
| Get a related visualization | JPG | Thumbnail | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | SASSIE Overview Document | Open resource | |
| View documentation related to this dataset | HTML | SASSIE Project Website | Open resource |
| Google Scholar search results | HTML | Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. | Open resource |