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

NOAA Ship Nancy Foster collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the North Atlantic Ocean from 2013-07-12 to 2013-07-21. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, which was logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System and archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. The accession includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Correlating meteorological conditions with oceanographic measurements based on the described multi-sensor data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions based on the logged navigational and time series data.
• Studying optical properties of seawater in the North Atlantic based on the described optical data.
• Validating or calibrating other oceanographic models using this in-situ, ship-collected physical data.

Strengths

• Data originates from a NOAA research vessel, suggesting authoritative collection methods.
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) logged during a single cruise.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Limitations

• Last updated 2013-07-21 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

2013-07 12 to 2013-07-21

Freshness

2013-07-21 00:00:00

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean