NOAA Ship Nancy Foster Underway Data from the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic, 2013

NOAA Ship Nancy Foster collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean from 2013-02-16 to 2013-04 06. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to the National Oceanographic Data Center. The data were archived through the automated NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling regional weather patterns based on the meteorological data collected.
• Analyzing ship navigation and ocean currents based on the navigational data.
• Studying optical properties of seawater based on the optical data mentioned.
• Creating time series analyses of physical oceanographic conditions.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a specific 50-day period from February to April 2013.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Archived through the established NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Limitations

• Last updated 2013-04-06 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 Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Nancy Foster and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2013-02-16 to 2013-04-06

Freshness

2013-04-06 00:00:00

Geography

Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean