An amateur attempt to match argo float 3901910 to amsr2 to see how close to the ice edge it travelled, aug18-dec14. It reported weekly until nov30 and has reporting daily since. Report (cycle) numbers are overlayed onto Greenland, bottom left.
edit:added temp labels
Approximate data based on eyeballing the attached charts is in text below. Timing the temp/salinity data to the animation makes the gif too large. Easiest to download both gifs and step them manually for analysis. (or even better, advice from someone with netcdf skills pls)
The main observation for ice watchers is that the warm current alongside the ice front is ~2.5C at surface recently.
cycle lat long temp C sal date
60 80.06547 5.16783 2.75 32.4 0818
61 80.20849 5.23104 5 34.45 0825
62 80.38986 4.78623 2.6 33.65 0901
63 80.48555 6.0284 4.5 34.42 0908
64 80.49247 6.82373 3.8 34.1 0915
65 80.58095 7.16061 4.3 34.1 0922
66 80.44863 8.30625 3.8 34.4 0929
67 80.43952 9.16231 4 34.75 1006
68 80.37718 7.56771 1.5 34.4 1013
69 80.51731 11.28802 0.3 34.1 1020
70 80.84061 14.77375 3 34.75 1027
71 80.85687 16.35878 1.5 34.6 1103
72 81.43671 17.30993 1.6 34.64 1110
73 81.56787 21.71607 -1.2 34.15 1117
74 81.61883 26.34895 -0.7 34.35 1124
75 81.62392 31.29192 -1.5 34.26 1201
76 81.82774 34.03102 -1.1 34.32 1202
77 82.01424 35.80637 -1.6 34.26 1203
78 82.1778 38.04842 2.5 34.82 1204
79 82.28333 39.82095 -1.6 34.23 1205
80 82.29029 39.77042 2.3 34.77 1206
81 82.28489 39.64985 1.8 34.74 1207
82 82.29791 39.56938 2.7 34.86 1208
83 82.25532 39.58456 0.8 34.61 1209
84 82.22805 39.50098 2.7 34.86 1210
85 82.20667 39.35864 2.5 34.86 1211
86 82.21352 39.10944 1.2 34.45 1212
87 82.21687 39.05996 -1.2 34.29 1213
88 82.21415 39.16856 0 34.49 1214
data here
http://www.argodatamgt.org/Access-to-data/Description-of-all-floats2choose 3901910