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

NODC Accession 0113485 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Nancy Foster. The data was collected in the North Atlantic Ocean from August 16 to August 28, 2013, and submitted to the National Oceanographic Data Center by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere heat and gas exchange based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions in the North Atlantic based on navigational and optical data.
• Studying short-term oceanic and atmospheric variability based on the time series nature of the logged data.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple sensor types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) for integrated analysis.
• Cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log provides operational context.
• Data collection follows a defined NOAA R2R program process for archival.

Limitations

• Last updated 2013-08-28 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 Ship Nancy Foster, Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO), NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Collection Method

Automated logging by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS) and manual logging in the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).

Time Range

2013-08 16 to 2013-08-28

Freshness

Last updated 2013-08-28 00:00:00

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean