NOAA Ship Underway Oceanographic Data from the North Atlantic, February 2020

A three-day collection from February 24-26, 2020, of raw underway biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and survey data logged aboard the NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow in the North Atlantic Ocean. The data were submitted by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) personnel and archived by the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program. The accession includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).

Use Cases

• Modeling short-term oceanographic conditions based on the described physical and optical data.
• Analyzing biological survey data for species distribution patterns in the North Atlantic.
• Correlating meteorological and navigational data for ship-track environmental studies.
• Validating automated data archiving processes based on the NOAA R2R program methodology mentioned.

Strengths

• Data collection spans multiple oceanographic domains including biological, physical, and meteorological.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).
• Archived through an automated process under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Limitations

• Row count, column definitions, and file formats are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2020-02-26; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2020-02-24 to 2020-02 26

Freshness

Last updated 2020-02-26 00:00:00

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean