NOAA Ship Nancy Foster Underway Data from the North Atlantic Ocean, June 2013

NOAA Ship Nancy Foster collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the North Atlantic Ocean from June 2 to June 15, 2013. 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 archive also includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, processed through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Correlating meteorological conditions with oceanographic readings based on the described underway data collection.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and their environmental context based on the logged navigational and time-series data.
• Calibrating or validating optical sensor models using the described optical data streams.
• Studying short-term physical oceanography processes in a specific region based on the two-week cruise data.

Strengths

• Data originates from a NOAA research vessel, suggesting institutional collection standards.
• Includes multiple data streams (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) for a single cruise, allowing for cross-domain analysis.
• Cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log provides additional context for the time-series.

Limitations

• Last updated 2013-06-15 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

2013-06-02 to 2013-06-15

Freshness

Last updated 2013-06-15 00:00:00

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean