NOAA Ship Nancy Foster Underway Oceanographic and Meteorological Data, 2013

Raw underway data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Nancy Foster during a cruise in the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean from February 13 to March 1, 2013. The dataset includes meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data submitted by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel. It was archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program and contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere heat and gas exchange based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship track navigation patterns and environmental conditions in the Caribbean Sea.
• Correlating optical measurements with other physical oceanographic variables over time.
• Studying short-term temporal variability in marine systems using the time series data.

Strengths

• Data spans a specific 17-day cruise from 2013-02-13 to 2013-03-01.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Limitations

• Last updated 2013-03-01 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

Data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System and submitted by OMAO personnel, archived via the NOAA R2R program.

Time Range

2013-02 13 to 2013-03-01

Freshness

Last updated 2013-03-01 00:00:00

Geography

Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean