SASSIE Arctic Field Campaign Shipboard Salinity Snake Data Fall 2022

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
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
33 SASSIE Overview Document https://salinity.oceansciences.org/docs/SASSIE_overview.pdf
21 Dataset Landing Page https://doi.org/10.5067/SASSIE-SNK2
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FSASSIE-SNK2
21 Browse granule search results in Earthdata Search https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/virtual-directory/collections/C2684906861-POCLOUD

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

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