Underway meteorological, navigational and physical data collected aboard NOAA Ship Ronald

From 2015-12-30 to 2016-01-10, raw underway meteorological, navigational, and physical data were logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown in the North Pacific Ocean. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) personnel submitted the data and metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). The data were archived through an automated process developed under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Use Cases

• Modeling air-sea heat and moisture fluxes based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship track and ocean current patterns based on navigational data.
• Calibrating satellite-derived oceanographic measurements based on in-situ physical data.
• Studying automated data logging and archival workflows based on the NOAA R2R program process.

Strengths

• Data includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).
• Collection process is automated under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program, suggesting standardized formatting.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2016-01-10; freshness should be verified for contemporary applications.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2015-12-30 to 2016-01-10

Freshness

Last updated 2016-01-10 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean