Underway Meteorological and Navigational Data from NOAA Ship Nancy Foster, June 2015

NOAA Ship Nancy Foster collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data in the Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean from 2015-06-15 to 2015-06-28. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System to the National Oceanographic Data Center. The data were archived as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program under NCEI Accession 0129875.

Use Cases

• Modeling marine weather conditions based on the meteorological data mentioned in the description
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns based on the logged navigational data
• Studying physical oceanographic properties in the Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean
• Correlating optical measurements with other environmental time series data

Strengths

• Data spans a specific 14-day period from 2015-06-15 to 2015 06-28
• Includes multiple data streams: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical
• Collected and submitted via an automated process under the NOAA R2R program

Limitations

• Last updated 2015-06-28 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

2015-06-15 to 2015-06-28

Freshness

Last updated 2015-06-28 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean