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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 shipboard meteorology and air-sea flux measurements. Version 2 data contain corrections for ship wake and motion, estimates of IR flux and other direct fluxes. Data are available in netCDF format.

Product Summary

Platforms
Ships
Instruments
PYRANOMETERS ,
SONIC ANEMOMETER ,
Pyrgeometer
Projects
SASSIE
Spatial Extent

N: 73.52 S: 69.2 E: -144.9 W: -165.96

Location
BEAUFORT SEA
Coordinate System
GEODETIC
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2022-09-06 to 2022-10-01
Data Partner
Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA (NASA/JPL/PODAAC)
Concept ID
C4277512400-POCLOUD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
1
Processing Level
2
Science Keywords
Surface Precipitation ,
Sea Surface Skin Temperature ,
Downwelling Shortwave Radiation ,
Upwelling Longwave Radiation ,
Downwelling Longwave Radiation ,
Atmospheric Pressure Measurements ,
Humidity Indices ,
Air Temperature ,
Surface Winds

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

SASSIE. (2026). SASSIE Arctic Field Campaign Shipboard Meteorology Data Fall 2022 Version 3 [Dataset]. NASA Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/SASSIE-MET2_V3 Date Accessed: 2026-08-25

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