Underway meteorological and navigational data collected aboard NOAA Ship Ferdinand R. Hass

NOAA Ship Ferdinand R. Hassler collected raw underway meteorological and navigational data in the North Atlantic Ocean from 2015-06-29 to 2015-07 26. The data were logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS) and submitted to NCEI by OMAO personnel. The archive also includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, processed through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere heat and moisture fluxes based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and routes in the North Atlantic based on logged navigational data.
• Calibrating or validating remote sensing data with in-situ shipborne meteorological observations.
• Studying specific weather events or conditions during the cruise period from June to July 2015.

Strengths

• Data collected from a dedicated NOAA research vessel, suggesting institutional quality control.
• Includes both primary sensor data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Covers a specific 28-day period from 2015-06-29 to 2015-07-26, providing a focused temporal snapshot.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2015-07-26 00:00:00; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI, collected by NOAA Ship Ferdinand R. Hassler and OMAO personnel.

Collection Method

Automated archival of raw data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS) under the NOAA R2R program.

Time Range

2015-06-29 to 2015-07-26

Freshness

Data covers a specific period in 2015; the archive was last updated on 2015-07-26.

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean