SASSIE Arctic Field Campaign ALTO/ALAMO Profiling Float Data Fall 2022 Version 1

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 temperature and salinity measurements collected by ALTO and Air Launched Autonomous Micro Observer (ALAMO) profiling floats deployed in the Beaufort Sea. ALTO floats had ice-avoidance firmware, meaning that they stopped surfacing and transmitting data once surface temperatures dropped to near-freezing values (indicating the presence of sea ice). They will hopefully reappear in summer 2023 to report data from the previous ice-covered season. ALAMO floats did not have ice-avoidance, in order to ensure that they reported data as long as possible during ice freeze-up. As a result, they will likely not survive over the winter. Future versions if this dataset may include data collected after Fall 2022. Data are available in netCDF format.