SASSIE Arctic Field Campaign Jet Surface Salinity Profiler Data Fall 2022 Version 1

Published by NASA/JPL/PODAAC | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Metadata Last Checked: September 14, 2025 | Last Modified: 2025-09-11

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 ~200 km of the sea ice edge. This dataset contains near-surface air pressure, temperature, and winds, as well as ocean temperature and salinity measurements collected using a Jet Surface Salinity Profiler (Jet-SSP). The Jet-SSP is a remotely operated kayak containing various instrumentation. It moved along various horizontal trajectories each deployment, traveling up to 5 kts as it collected data. Data are available in NetCDF format.

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Complete Metadata

bureauCode	[ "026:00" ]
identifier	10.5067/SASSIE-JETSSP2
landingPage	https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/CitingPODAAC
programCode	[ "026:000" ]
spatial	["GEODETIC",[{"NorthBoundingCoordinate":73.5,"WestBoundingCoordinate":-151,"EastBoundingCoordinate":-144,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":72}]], Minimum Depth;Maximum Depth, 0.5 meters;1.1 meters
temporal	2022-09-10/2022-09-10
theme	[ "Earth Science" ]