NOAA Ship Nancy Foster Underway Oceanographic and Meteorological Data from August 2013

Raw underway data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Nancy Foster during a cruise in the North Atlantic Ocean from August 9 to August 15, 2013. The dataset contains meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data submitted by the Office of Marine and Aviation Operations and archived by NODC under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Analyze marine atmospheric conditions based on the meteorological data mentioned in the description
• Study ship navigation patterns in the North Atlantic based on the navigational log data
• Correlate optical and physical oceanographic measurements based on the time series data
• Validate automated data archiving pipelines for underway ship data based on the R2R program metadata

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 7-day cruise from 2013-08-09 to 2013-08-15
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log
• Archived via an automated process under the NOAA R2R program

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Last updated 2013-08-15 00:00:00; freshness should be verified
• 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

2013-08 09 to 2013-08-15

Freshness

Last updated 2013-08-15 00:00:00

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean