The North Pacific Ocean is the geographic scope for raw underway biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette from 2020-09-23 to 2020-09-28. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, which was archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. The dataset includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
Use Cases
- Correlating biological activity with physical oceanographic conditions based on the described biological and physical data streams.
- Analyzing short-term meteorological patterns over the ocean based on the described meteorological data.
- Studying vessel-based navigation and its environmental context based on the described navigational and time series data.
- Investigating optical properties of seawater and their relation to other parameters based on the described optical data.
Strengths
- Data collection covers a specific 6-day cruise from 2020-09-23 to 2020-09-28.
- Includes multiple concurrent data types: biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
- Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
Limitations
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last updated 2020-09-28 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA_NCEI via nasa_earthdata platform.
- Collection Method
- Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette and submitted by OMAO personnel.
- Time Range
- 2020-09-23 to 2020-09-28
- Freshness
- Last updated 2020-09-28 00:00:00.
- Geography
- North Pacific Ocean