NOAA Ship Underway Oceanographic and Biological Data from the North Atlantic, March 2020

March 3-18, 2020 data collected aboard NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow in the North Atlantic Ocean. The dataset contains raw underway biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and survey-biological time series data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System. It was submitted by NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations and archived by the National Centers for Environmental Information via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on concurrent meteorological and physical oceanographic data.
• Analyzing marine biological activity patterns based on underway biological and survey-biological time series.
• Studying ship-based navigation and environmental conditions based on navigational and optical data.
• Correlating surface and profile physical measurements for oceanographic research.

Strengths

• Data was collected over a 16-day continuous period from March 3 to March 18, 2020.
• Includes multiple concurrent data streams (biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, physical).
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data is archived via the established NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) automated process.

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 2020-03-18; freshness should be verified for current applications.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI (National Centers for Environmental Information)

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2020-03-03 to 2020-03-18

Freshness

Last updated 2020-03-18 00:00:00

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean