NOAA Ship Pisces Underway Oceanographic and Meteorological Data from 2021

Raw underway data collected aboard NOAA Ship Pisces in the Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean from March to May 2021. The dataset includes biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS). Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) personnel submitted the data and metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) via 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 the Gulf of Mexico based on biological data streams.
• Studying ship-track environmental profiles based on profile and time series data.
• Correlating navigational data with optical and physical measurements for spatial analysis.

Strengths

• Data spans a multi-month cruise from 2021-03-11 to 2021-05-28, providing temporal continuity.
• Includes seven distinct data categories (biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, time series) for multi-domain analysis.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).
• Archived via an automated process under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2021-05-28; freshness should be verified for current applications.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2021-03-11 to 2021-05-28

Freshness

Last updated 2021-05-28 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean