NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown Underway Meteorological and Navigational Log from 2016-03 -28

NCEI Accession 0166876 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, and physical data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown. The data were collected on 2016-03-28 in unknown ocean waters and submitted to the National Centers for Environmental Information by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel. The accession also includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling marine weather conditions based on the described meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation and track patterns based on the navigational data.
• Studying physical oceanographic parameters collected via the underway logging system.
• Researching automated data collection and archival workflows for research vessels.

Strengths

• Data originates from a NOAA research vessel, suggesting institutional credibility.
• Includes both primary sensor data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Archived via the established NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository automated process.

Limitations

• The geographic coverage is listed as 'unknown oceans', limiting spatial specificity.
• 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.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated logging by the ship's Scientific Computer System and manual entries in the Ship Daily Activity Log, submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2016-03-28

Freshness

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

Geography

Waters of unknown oceans.