NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown Underway Oceanographic Data from 2020-2021

NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown collected raw underway biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data from 2020-10-10 to 2021-03 30 in the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic, and North Pacific. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The data were archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing marine biological patterns in relation to navigational and optical conditions.
• Studying temporal and spatial variability in oceanographic parameters from the time series data.
• Correlating ship-track navigational data with concurrent biological and physical measurements.

Strengths

• Data spans a 5-month cruise from October 2020 to March 2021.
• Includes multiple data domains: biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2021-03-30 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2020-10-10 to 2021-03-30

Freshness

Last updated 2021-03-30 00:00:00

Geography

Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific Ocean