NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown Underway Oceanographic Data, North and South Atlantic 2020

NCEI Accession 0210996 contains raw underway biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, and time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown. The data were collected in the North and South Atlantic Ocean from February 22 to April 17, 2020, and submitted by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on meteorological and physical data
• Analyzing marine biological activity patterns based on biological and optical data
• Studying ship navigation and environmental correlations based on navigational and time series data
• Validating satellite-derived oceanographic measurements based on in-situ physical and optical readings

Strengths

• Data spans a 56-day continuous time series from 2020-02-22 to 2020-04 17
• Includes multiple data domains: biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical
• 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 2020-04-17 00:00:00; freshness should be verified

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI and NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO)

Collection Method

Automated logging by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard the ship, with supplementary metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).

Time Range

2020-02-22 to 2020-04-17

Freshness

Last updated 2020-04-17 00:00:00

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean and South Atlantic Ocean