NOAA Ship Hassler Underway Meteorological and Navigational Data, March 2016

NOAA Ship Ferdinand R. Hassler collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, and physical data in the North Atlantic Ocean from 2016-03-01 to 2016-03 28. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The data were archived as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling surface weather conditions in the North Atlantic based on the meteorological data mentioned.
• Analyzing ship track and navigation patterns based on the navigational data logged.
• Correlating physical oceanographic variables with meteorological observations based on the combined data types.
• Studying the data pipeline from shipboard logging to national repository based on the NOAA R2R program description.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 28-day voyage in March 2016, providing a temporal snapshot.
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, physical) collected simultaneously.
• Data collection follows a documented NOAA program (R2R) with associated cruise-level metadata.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2016-03-28 00:00:00; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated logging by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS) and submission by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2016-03-01 to 2016-03-28

Freshness

Last updated 2016-03-28 00:00:00

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean