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 ~200km of the sea ice edge. This dataset contains salinity and temperature measurements collected by a shipboard salinity snake. The salinity snake system consisted of a ship-mounted boom with a length of 10m to provide sampling of undisturbed water at a depth of 1-2cm. Salinity data are delayed by 40s, which is the average residence time in the hose, pump, and shipboard system before being analyzed. 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |