NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown Underway Oceanographic Data from the South Pacific, 2018

Raw underway data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown during a 2018 expedition. The dataset includes biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series measurements collected in the Arafura Sea, Coral Sea, North Pacific Ocean, South Pacific Ocean, and Timor Sea from July 5 to September 1, 2018. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log to the National Centers for Environmental Information via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling sea surface temperature and salinity dynamics based on physical time series data.
• Analyzing correlations between meteorological conditions and biological observations based on the multi-domain data.
• Mapping ship track and environmental variable gradients based on navigational and geospatial data.
• Studying optical properties of water columns in the Coral and Timor Seas based on optical data.

Strengths

• Data spans multiple scientific domains (biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) for integrated analysis.
• Covers a specific two-month cruise from July 5 to September 1, 2018, providing a continuous time series.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log for context.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2018-09-01 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated archival via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program from data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System.

Time Range

2018-07 05 to 2018-09-01

Freshness

Last updated 2018-09-01 00:00:00

Geography

Arafura Sea, Coral Sea, North Pacific Ocean, South Pacific Ocean, Timor Sea