NOAA Ship Ferdinand R. Hassler Underway Data in the North Atlantic, 2015

NCEI Accession 0138016 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, and physical data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Ferdinand R. Hassler. The data was collected in the North Atlantic Ocean from July 27 to September 21, 2015, and submitted to the National Centers for Environmental Information by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel. The dataset also includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Analyze meteorological trends in the North Atlantic based on the logged underway data.
• Study ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions based on the combined navigational and physical data.
• Validate or calibrate oceanographic models using the time-series physical data collected during the cruise.
• Research data collection and archival processes for scientific vessel operations based on the R2R program metadata.

Strengths

• Data collected over a focused 56-day period in 2015, providing a continuous time-series.
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, physical) logged from a single scientific vessel.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Archived through an established automated process under the NOAA R2R program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2015-09-21 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2015-07 27 to 2015-09-21

Freshness

Last updated 2015-09-21 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean