Underway meteorological, navigational, optical and physical data collected aboard NOAA Shi

Raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette. The data were collected in the North Pacific Ocean from September 11 to September 30, 2013, and submitted to the National Oceanographic Data Center by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling air-sea heat and momentum fluxes based on underway meteorological data
• Analyzing ship navigation and track patterns based on logged navigational data
• Studying ocean optical properties like water clarity based on optical sensor data
• Correlating physical oceanographic variables with weather observations for regional studies

Strengths

• Data collection spans a continuous 20-day period in September 2013
• Includes multiple data streams: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log

Limitations

• Last updated 2013-09-30 00:00:00; freshness should be verified
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated logging by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS) and manual logging in the Ship Daily Activity Log, archived via the NOAA R2R program.

Time Range

2013-09 11 to 2013-09-30

Freshness

Last updated 2013-09-30 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean