First Results from NASA’s Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge (SASSIE) Mission

Kyla Drushka1, Frederick Bingham2, Shannon T. Brown3, Eric A D'Asaro4, Annette deCharon5, Ian G Fenty6, Severine Fournier3, Ted Maksym7, Sidharth Misra6, Jaynise Perez8, Julian J Schanze9, Carlyn Schmidgall10, Andrey Shcherbina1, Michael Steele11, James M Thomson12, Seth Zippel13 and SASSIE Team, (1)Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (4)Applied Physics Lab, Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (5)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (8)University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, United States, (9)Earth and Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States, (10)University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (11)Univ Washington, Seattle, United States, (12)Applied Physics Lab (UW), Seattle, WA, United States, (13)University of Washington APL, Seattle, WA, United States