NOAA Ship Nancy Foster Underway Data from the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic, 2015
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Description
Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean underway data collected aboard NOAA Ship Nancy Foster from April 12 to May 5, 2015. The dataset contains raw meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System. It was submitted by NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations and archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.
Use Cases
Analyze meteorological trends based on the raw meteorological data mentioned in the description
Study ship navigation patterns based on the navigational data mentioned in the description
Correlate optical and physical oceanographic measurements based on the optical and physical data mentioned in the description
Model time series of environmental variables based on the time series data mentioned in the description
Strengths
Data covers a specific 24-day voyage from April 12 to May 5, 2015
Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical
Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log
Archived via the established NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program
Limitations
Last updated 2015-05-05 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.