NAAMES C-130: Ocean Remote Sensing Data from North Atlantic Aircraft Campaigns

Remotely sensed ocean measurements collected onboard a C-130 aircraft during the North Atlantic Aerosols and Marine Ecosystems Study (NAAMES). The data were gathered over the North Atlantic Ocean during three field campaigns from November 2015 to September 2017. NASA produced this dataset to link local-scale ocean processes to satellite records for studying ocean-atmosphere interactions.

Use Cases

• Modeling phytoplankton bloom dynamics based on ocean remote sensing measurements.
• Studying ocean-atmosphere coupling for climate research based on the NAAMES mission objective.
• Calibrating and validating satellite ocean color products based on airborne measurements.
• Analyzing seasonal variability in ocean properties based on data from four distinct deployment phases.

Strengths

• Data collection is explicitly stated as complete.
• Covers three distinct field campaigns spanning from 2015 to 2017.
• Produced by NASA, a recognized authoritative source for Earth science data.
• Designed to directly link local-scale processes to a larger-scale satellite record.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Most ocean data products reside in a separate archive, suggesting this is a subset.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Collection Method

Remotely sensed measurements collected onboard a NASA C-130 Hercules aircraft.

Time Range

November 4, 2015 – November 29, 2015; May 11, 2016 – June 5, 2016; August 30, 2017 – September 22, 2017

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-12 23:34:05.481176; freshness should be verified.

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean, with aircraft based at St. John's International Airport, Newfoundland, Canada.