Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler data captures east-west and north-south water current velocity components from a specific NOAA research vessel voyage. The NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations collected and submitted these measurements on July 15, 2019. Data originates from the North Pacific Ocean and Yaquina Bay.
Use Cases
- Modeling coastal circulation patterns using CURRENT SPEED - EAST/WEST COMPONENT (U) and CURRENT SPEED - NORTH/SOUTH COMPONENT (V) data.
- Calibrating hydrodynamic models with ship-collected ADCP measurements from the North Pacific Ocean.
- Analyzing tidal or estuarine flow in Yaquina Bay using the time-series current velocity records.
- Studying vessel drift or navigation impacts by correlating GPS position data with concurrent ADCP readings.
Strengths
- Data provides two fundamental vector components (U and V) for calculating current speed and direction.
- Measurements are tied to a known platform, NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada, and a specific date.
- Data originates from an authoritative source, NOAA OMAO, and is archived at NCEI.
Limitations
- Dataset covers only a single day (2019-07-15), offering no longitudinal time series.
- Unknown row count and sample frequency limits assessment of data density.
- Geographic coverage is limited to the ship's track on that day.
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO), submitted to NCEI.
- Collection Method
- Collected aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada using ADCP and GPS instruments.
- Time Range
- 2019-07-15
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- North Pacific Ocean and Yaquina Bay.