Underway biological, meteorological, navigational, optical and physical data collected abo
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Description
Raw underway biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log. Data collection occurred in the Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean from March 14 to March 17, 2020.
Use Cases
Analyze marine biological activity patterns based on the biological data mentioned in the description
Study meteorological conditions at sea based on the meteorological data mentioned in the description
Model physical oceanographic properties based on the physical data mentioned in the description
Correlate navigational tracks with environmental observations based on the navigational data mentioned in the description
Strengths
Data includes multiple environmental domains: biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical
Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log
Data was collected over a specific 4-day period from 2020-03-14 to 2020-03-17
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
Last updated 2020-03-17 00:00:00; freshness should be verified
Provenance
Source
NOAA_NCEI
Collection Method
Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer and submitted by OMAO personnel, archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.