NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette Underway Oceanographic Data, North Pacific 2020

Raw underway data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette during a voyage in the North Pacific Ocean from January 18 to March 12, 2020. The dataset includes biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data submitted by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel. Data and supplementary cruise-level metadata were archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on meteorological and physical data mentioned in the description
• Analyzing marine biological patterns in relation to physical oceanographic conditions from the underway data
• Studying ship navigation and its environmental context using the integrated navigational and time series data
• Calibrating remote sensing instruments using the in-situ optical and physical measurements collected

Strengths

• Data collection spans a 55-day continuous voyage from 2020-01-18 to 2020-03-12
• Integrates multiple data streams: biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log
• Data archived through an automated process under the NOAA R2R program

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Last updated 2020-03-12 00:00:00; freshness should be verified

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard the ship and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2020-01-18 to 2020-03-12

Freshness

Last updated 2020-03-12 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean