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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2023-406
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2023-406
17 Jan 2024
 | 17 Jan 2024
Status: a revised version of this preprint was accepted for the journal ESSD and is expected to appear here in due course.

Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge (SASSIE): An oceanographic field campaign in the Beaufort Sea

Kyla Drushka, Elizabeth Westbrook, Frederick Bingham, Peter Gaube, Suzanne Dickinson, Severine Fournier, Viviane Menezes, Sidharth Misra, Jaynise Perez, Edwin J. Rainville, Julian Schanze, Carlyn Schmidgall, Andrey Shcherbina, Michael Steele, Jim Thomson, and Seth Zippel

Abstract. As our planet warms, Arctic sea ice coverage continues to decline resulting in complex feedbacks with the climate system. The core objective of NASA’s Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge (SASSIE) mission is to understand how ocean salinity and near-surface stratification affect upper ocean heat content, and thus sea ice freeze and melt. SASSIE specifically focuses on the formation of Arctic sea ice in autumn. The SASSIE field campaign in 2022 collected detailed observations of upper ocean properties and meteorology near the sea ice edge in the Beaufort Sea using ship-based and piloted and drifting assets. The observations collected during SASSIE include vertical profiles of stratification up to the sea surface, air-sea fluxes, and ancillary measurements that are being used to better understand the role of salinity in coupled Arctic air-sea-ice processes. This publication provides a detailed overview of the activities during the 2022 SASSIE campaign and presents the publicly available datasets generated by this mission, inducing an accompanying repository that highlights the numerical routines used to generate the figures shown in this manuscript.

Kyla Drushka, Elizabeth Westbrook, Frederick Bingham, Peter Gaube, Suzanne Dickinson, Severine Fournier, Viviane Menezes, Sidharth Misra, Jaynise Perez, Edwin J. Rainville, Julian Schanze, Carlyn Schmidgall, Andrey Shcherbina, Michael Steele, Jim Thomson, and Seth Zippel

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  • RC1: 'Comment on essd-2023-406', Anonymous Referee #1, 30 Jan 2024
    • AC1: 'AC - Response to RC1', Elizabeth Westbrook, 03 Apr 2024
  • RC2: 'Comment on essd-2023-406', Anonymous Referee #2, 25 Feb 2024
    • AC2: 'Comment on essd-2023-406', Elizabeth Westbrook, 03 Apr 2024
  • AC1: 'AC - Response to RC1', Elizabeth Westbrook, 03 Apr 2024
  • AC2: 'Comment on essd-2023-406', Elizabeth Westbrook, 03 Apr 2024

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on essd-2023-406', Anonymous Referee #1, 30 Jan 2024
    • AC1: 'AC - Response to RC1', Elizabeth Westbrook, 03 Apr 2024
  • RC2: 'Comment on essd-2023-406', Anonymous Referee #2, 25 Feb 2024
    • AC2: 'Comment on essd-2023-406', Elizabeth Westbrook, 03 Apr 2024
  • AC1: 'AC - Response to RC1', Elizabeth Westbrook, 03 Apr 2024
  • AC2: 'Comment on essd-2023-406', Elizabeth Westbrook, 03 Apr 2024
Kyla Drushka, Elizabeth Westbrook, Frederick Bingham, Peter Gaube, Suzanne Dickinson, Severine Fournier, Viviane Menezes, Sidharth Misra, Jaynise Perez, Edwin J. Rainville, Julian Schanze, Carlyn Schmidgall, Andrey Shcherbina, Michael Steele, Jim Thomson, and Seth Zippel

Data sets

SASSIE Arctic Field Campaign Shipboard Thermosalinograph Data Fall 2022. Ver. 1. Kyla Drushka https://doi.org/10.5067/SASSIE-TSG2

Interactive computing environment

SASSIE Data Visualization Github Elizabeth Westbrook https://github.com/lizwestbro/SASSIE_Data

Video supplement

SASSIE Asset Movie Elizabeth Westbrook https://drive.google.com/file/d/11IM3b4Lo2YtxySdYQVrksAA6JBkl4IyN/view?usp=sharing

Kyla Drushka, Elizabeth Westbrook, Frederick Bingham, Peter Gaube, Suzanne Dickinson, Severine Fournier, Viviane Menezes, Sidharth Misra, Jaynise Perez, Edwin J. Rainville, Julian Schanze, Carlyn Schmidgall, Andrey Shcherbina, Michael Steele, Jim Thomson, and Seth Zippel

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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.
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