NOAA Ship Nancy Foster Underway Data in the North Atlantic, August-September 2013

NODC Accession 0113487 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 2013-08-31 to 2013-09-07 and submitted to NODC by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel. Supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log is also included, archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Correlating meteorological conditions with oceanographic readings based on the described physical and time series data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions based on the navigational and meteorological data mentioned.
• Validating automated data logging and archival processes for underway ship data based on the NOAA R2R program description.

Strengths

• Contains multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) logged from a single, controlled platform.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data collection covers a specific 8-day time range from 2013-08 31 to 2013-09-07 in the North Atlantic Ocean.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2013-09-07 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 (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Nancy Foster and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2013-08-31 to 2013-09-07

Freshness

Last updated 2013-09-07 00:00:00.

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean