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Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge (SASSIE): an oceanographic field campaign in the Beaufort Sea
Kyla Drushka
Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
Elizabeth Westbrook
Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC 28412, USA
Frederick M. Bingham
Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC 28412, USA
Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
Suzanne Dickinson
Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
Severine Fournier
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
Viviane Menezes
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Falmouth, MA 02543, USA
Sidharth Misra
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
Jaynice Pérez Valentín
Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
Edwin J. Rainville
Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
Julian J. Schanze
Earth and Space Research, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
Carlyn Schmidgall
Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
Andrey Shcherbina
Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
Michael Steele
Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
Jim Thomson
Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
Seth Zippel
College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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The offshore winds around Antarctica can reach hurricane strength and produce intense cooling, causing the surface ocean to form a slurry of seawater and ice crystals. For the first time, we observed a buildup of heat and salt in the surface ocean, caused by loose ice crystal formation. We conclude that up to 1 m of ice was formed per day by the intense cooling, suggesting that unconsolidated crystals may be an important part of the total freezing that happens around Antarctica.
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The NASA SASSIE mission aims to understand the role of salinity in modifying sea ice formation in early autumn. The 2022 SASSIE campaign collected measurements of upper-ocean properties, including stratification (layering of the ocean) and air–sea fluxes in the Beaufort Sea. These data are presented here and made publicly available on the NASA Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC), along with code to manipulate the data and generate the figures presented herein.
The NASA SASSIE mission aims to understand the role of salinity in modifying sea ice formation...
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