FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Properties of surface water masses in the Laptev and the East Siberian seas in summer 2018 from in situ and satellite data BT AF Tarasenko, Anastasiia Supply, Alexandre Kusse-Tiuz, Nikita Ivanov, Vladimir Makhotin, Mikhail Tournadre, Jean Chapron, Bertrand Boutin, Jacqueline Kolodziejczyk, Nicolas Reverdin, Gilles AS 1:1,4;2:3;3:1;4:1;5:1;6:2,4;7:2;8:3;9:4;10:3; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:PDG-ODE-LOPS-SIAM;7:PDG-ODE-LOPS-SIAM;8:;9:;10:; C1 Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Depatment of Oceanology, 199397 Saint Petersburg, Russia Univ. Brest, CNRS, IRD, Ifremer, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), IUEM, Brest 29280, France Sorbonne Université, CNRS, IRD, MNHN, Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat, Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN), 75005 Paris, France Univ. Brest, CNRS, IRD, Ifremer, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), IUEM, Brest 29280, France C2 AARI, RUSSIA IFREMER, FRANCE CNRS, FRANCE UBO, FRANCE SI BREST SE PDG-ODE-LOPS-SIAM UM LOPS IN WOS Ifremer UMR WOS Cotutelle UMR DOAJ copubli-france copubli-univ-france copubli-int-hors-europe IF 4.311 TC 16 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00678/79015/81413.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00678/79015/81415.pdf LA English DT Article AB Variability of surface water masses of the Laptev and the East Siberian seas in August–September 2018 is studied using in situ and satellite data. In situ data were collected during the ARKTIKA-2018 expedition and then complemented with satellite-derived sea surface temperature (SST), salinity (SSS), sea surface height, wind speed, and sea ice concentration. The estimation of SSS fields is challenging in high-latitude regions, and the precision of soil moisture and ocean salinity (SMOS) SSS retrieval is improved by applying a threshold on SSS weekly error. For the first time in this region, the validity of DMI (Danish Meteorological Institute) SST and SMOS SSS products is thoroughly studied using ARKTIKA-2018 expedition continuous thermosalinograph measurements and conductivity–temperature–depth (CTD) casts. They are found to be adequate to describe large surface gradients in this region. Surface gradients and mixing of the river and the sea water in the ice-free and ice-covered areas are described with a special attention to the marginal ice zone at a synoptic scale. We suggest that the freshwater is pushed northward, close to the marginal ice zone (MIZ) and under the sea ice, which is confirmed by the oxygen isotope analysis. The SST-SSS diagram based on satellite estimates shows the possibility of investigating the surface water mass transformation at a synoptic scale and reveals the presence of river water on the shelf of the East Siberian Sea. The Ekman transport is calculated to better understand the pathway of surface water displacement on the shelf and beyond. PY 2021 PD FEB SO Ocean Science SN 1812-0784 PU Copernicus GmbH VL 17 IS 1 UT 000618225300001 BP 221 EP 247 DI 10.5194/os-17-221-2021 ID 79015 ER EF