N: 75.75 S: 67.46 E: -138 W: -170.5
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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. The Passive-Active L-Band System (PALS) is an airborne microwave radiometer that senses ocean temperature and surface wind speed. The brightness temperature data is obtained at 1.4GHz using the PALS conical scanner, with the raw data sampled at 1ms and gridded over an approximate 2x2km grid. Several quality control steps were done to remove any scan dependent biases, radio frequency interference, wind-speed dependencies. Calibration of the sensor was done with respect to special aircraft maneuvers as well as in-situ samples. Brightness temperature were converted to salinity via the Klein-Swift salinity retrieval model. Data is available in netCDF format.
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| Title | Year Sort ascending | Author | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge (SASSIE): an | Drushka, Kyla, Westbrook, Elizabeth, Bingham, Frederick M., Gaube, Peter, Dickinson, Suzanne, Fournier, Severine, Menezes, Viviane, Misra, Sidharth, Perez Valentin, Jaynice, Rainville, Edwin J., Schanze, Julian J., Schmidgall, Carlyn, Shcherbina, Andrey, Steele, Michael, Thomson, Jim, Zippel, Seth | OCEAN TEMPERATURE PROFILES, CONDUCTIVITY PROFILES, OCEAN SALINITY PROFILES, Salinity, Conductivity, CURRENT PROFILES, SURFACE SPEED, Ocean Surface Salinity, Brightness Temperature, Ocean Currents, Surface Winds, Air Temperature, Atmospheric Pressure Measurements, Sea Surface Temperature, SURFACE CONDUCTIVITY, Ocean Temperature, Ocean Salinity, Ocean Tracers, Density, Swells, Wind Waves, Surface Precipitation, Sea Surface Skin Temperature, Downwelling Shortwave Radiation, Upwelling Longwave Radiation, Downwelling Longwave Radiation, Humidity Indices, Surface Winds, Water Pressure, Sea Ice Concentration, Sea Ice Concentration, RADAR IMAGERY, RADAR, Surface Pressure, Wind Direction, Wind Speed |