2022 Arctic Saildrone Cruise Report

• Main Authors: García-Reyes, Marisol, Minnett, Peter J., Steele, Michael, Castro, Sandra, Cornillon, Peter, Armstrong, Ed, Vazquez-Cuervo, Jorge, Tsontos, Vardis, Cokelet, Edward, Wick, Gary A.
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: saildrone; air-sea interactions; GHRSST; sea surface temperature; Arctic; MISST; Bering Strait; Chukchi; Chukchi Sea; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7709660

Saildrone is a wind and solar powered unmanned surface vehicle (USV) capable of long distance deployments lasting up to 12 months and providing high quality, near real-time, multivariate surface ocean and atmospheric observations while transiting at typical speeds of 3-5 knots. The drone is autonomo...