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

Raw underway meteorological, navigational, and physical data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown. The data was collected in the North Pacific Ocean during a two-day voyage from 2016-02-09 to 2016-02 10 and submitted to NCEI by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel. Supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log is also included, archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling sea surface conditions based on underway physical data mentioned in the description
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns in the North Pacific Ocean based on logged navigational data
• Correlating meteorological observations with broader climate models based on the collected weather data
• Studying automated data logging and archival processes for research vessels based on the NOAA R2R program metadata

Strengths

• Data originates from a dedicated NOAA research vessel, suggesting standardized collection procedures
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log
• Collected via an automated process under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Last updated 2016-02-10 00:00:00; freshness should be verified
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated logging by the ship's Scientific Computer System, submitted by OMAO personnel

Time Range

2016-02-09 to 2016-02-10

Freshness

Last updated 2016-02-10 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean