NOAA Okeanos Explorer Underway Oceanographic Data, North Atlantic 2020

NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer collected raw underway biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the North Atlantic Ocean from March 25 to 27, 2020. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, which was archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository automated process. The accession includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on concurrent meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing marine biological activity patterns based on biological and optical sensor data.
• Studying ship navigation and environmental conditions based on integrated navigational and meteorological logs.
• Validating satellite-derived oceanographic measurements based on in-situ physical and optical data.

Strengths

• Data integrates five distinct measurement domains: biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Collected via an automated archiving process under the NOAA R2R program, suggesting standardized collection.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2020-03-27; freshness should be verified for current applications.

Provenance

Source

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2020-03 25 to 2020-03-27

Freshness

Last updated 2020-03-27 00:00:00

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean