NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow Underway Oceanographic Data from October 2020

NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow collected raw underway biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and survey data in the North Atlantic Ocean from October 7 to 16, 2020. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these data and associated metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. The dataset includes supplementary cruise-level metadata logged in the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on the concurrent meteorological and physical oceanography data.
• Analyzing marine biological survey patterns in relation to physical conditions like temperature and salinity.
• Studying ship-based navigation and optical data for correlation with biological or physical observations.
• Creating time-series analyses of environmental variables from the continuous underway data collection.

Strengths

• Data covers multiple integrated domains (biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) from a single research cruise.
• Collection period is precisely defined from 2020-10-07 to 2020-10-16.
• Data is archived through 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 formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2020-10-16; freshness should be verified for current applications.

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

2020-10-07 to 2020-10-16

Freshness

Last updated 2020-10-16 00:00:00

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean