Data from expedition SAS, Arctic Ocean, 2021
Pauline Snoeijs-Leijonmalm, SAS-Oden 2021 Scientific Party
The Synoptic Arctic Survey (SAS) 2021 expedition was carried out during summer 2021 in the Arctic Ocean, covering a large area including parts of Amundsen Basin, Nansen Basin, the North Pole, Lomonosov Ridge, Morris Jesup Rise and the Yermak Plateau.
With the Swedish icebreaker Oden serving as the research platform, a range of scientific investigations were made. The main scientific goal was to investigate the present state and ongoing transformations of the marine ecosystem. Data provided in the database here comprise expedition metadata, marine biology, marine geology, meteorology and oceanography data.
The expedition is the Swedish contribution to the SAS Program, a coordinated effort focusing on the status and change of the Arctic ecosystem. The expedition started Northeast of Svalbard and ended on the Yermak Plateau. It lasted from August 2 to September 11, 2021.
MarineExpeditionArctic OceanEcosystemOceanographyChemistryBiologyMarine GeologyBathymetryMultibeamIcebreaker OdenSAS 2021 expedition
Datasets
Expedition data
General
Ice stations
Atmospheric sciences
Clouds
- Cloud base heights and atmospheric backscatter observations
- Cloud radar data
- Integrated column water vapor and liquid water paths
Micrometeorology
Trace gases
Visibility
Geological sciences
Bathymetry
Sediment cores
Sub-bottom profiles
Life sciences
Marine biology
Ocean sciences
Hydrography
Ocean chemistry
Trace gases
Name
Version
Citation
References
Snoeijs-Leijonmalm Pauline, the SAS-Oden Scientific Party (2022) Expedition Report SWEDARCTIC: Synoptic Arctic Survey 2021 with icebreaker Oden. Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, 300 pp, ISBN 978-91-519-3672-7
Comments
The marine ecosystems of the Arctic Ocean are experiencing rapid change. The scientific goal of expedition SAS 2021 is to generate a comprehensive primary ecosystem dataset that allows for an improved characterisation of the Arctic Ocean with respect to its physical oceanography, marine ecosystems and carbon cycle. These data will provide a unique baseline that will allow for tracking climate change and its impacts as they unfold in the Arctic region over the coming years, decades and centuries.
The expedition SAS 2021 is the Swedish contribution to the international scientist-driven initiative Synoptic Arctic Survey (SAS). Scientists in the fields of biology, chemistry and physics from Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, UK and the USA made up the scientific party of 38.
The expedition leader team consisted of the Master of Icebreaker Oden Mattias Petersson, the Chief Scientist Pauline Snoeijs-Leijonmalm, and the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat (SPRS) Expedition Coordinator Maria Samuelsson. The total number of expedition participants was 75, including logistics staff from the SPRS and ship crew from Icebreaker Oden.
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Participants
Chief scientist
- Pauline Snoeijs-Leijonmalm, Stockholm University, Sweden
Scientific party
- Dennis Amnebrink, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
- Yannis Arck, Heidelberg University, Germany
- Clare Bird, University of Stirling, UK
- Kimberley Bird, The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, UK
- Caroline Bringensparr, Stockholm University, Sweden
- Ian Brown, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
- Carlos Castro, Stockholm University, Sweden
- Julek Chawarski, Stockholm University, Sweden
- Hanna Farnelid, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
- Hauke Flores, Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany
- Lennart Gerke, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Germany
- Nicole Hildebrandt, Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany
- Lina Holthusen, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Germany
- Salar Karam, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Christien Laber, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
- Prune Leroy, Stockholm University, Sweden
- Anna Lunde Hermansson, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Frank Menger, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
- Claudia Morys, Stockholm University, Sweden
- Julia Muchowski, Stockholm University, Sweden
- Sonja Murto, Stockholm University, Sweden
- Amanda Nylund, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Alexandra Padilla, University of New Hampshire, CCOM, USA
- Clara Pérez Martínez, Stockholm University, Sweden
- John Prytherch, Stockholm University, Sweden
- Janina Rahlff, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
- Serdar Sakinan, Wageningen Marine Research, IJmuiden, Netherlands
- Marcus Sundbom, Stockholm University, Sweden
- Emma Svahn, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
- Baldvin Thorvaldsson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
- Adam Ulfsbo, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Javier Vargas Calle, Uppsala University, Sweden
- Ashish Verma, Umeå University, Sweden
- Flor Vermassen, Stockholm University, Sweden
- Prof Johan Wikner, Umeå University, Sweden
- Lisa Winberg von Friesen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Birthe Zäncker, The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, UK
Reports
See more information at the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat.
Version history
Version 3
18 datasets.
Version 2
4 datasets.
Version 1
Initial release. 1 dataset.
Project
Synoptic Arctic Survey (SAS) 2021 expedition
Publisher
Bolin Centre Database
License
First name
Pauline
Last name or organisation
Snoeijs Leijonmalm
Email address
pauline.snoeijs-leijonmalm@su.se
Address
Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences; Stockholm University
Postal code
SE-106 91
City
Stockholm
Country
Sweden
GCMD science keyword
Earth science > Oceans
GCMD location
Ocean > Arctic Ocean
Dataset language
English
Begin date
2021-08-02
End date
2021-09-11