NOAA Ship Nancy Foster Underway Data in the North Atlantic Ocean, July 2015

NODC Accession 0129912 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Nancy Foster. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log for a voyage in the North Atlantic Ocean from 2015-07-07 to 2015-07 24. The data were archived through an automated process under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Correlating meteorological conditions with oceanographic readings based on the described underway data streams.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and their relationship to environmental measurements based on the navigational and time-series data.
• Studying optical properties of seawater in a specific region and time period based on the optical data mentioned.
• Validating automated data logging and archival processes for research vessels based on the NOAA R2R program methodology described.

Strengths

• Data collection covers a specific 18-day period from 2015-07-07 to 2015-07-24, providing a continuous time series.
• Includes multiple data streams: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical, allowing for multivariate analysis.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, providing operational context.

Limitations

• Last updated 2015-07-24 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 via the NASA Earthdata platform.

Collection Method

Automated logging by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS) and submission by OMAO personnel under the NOAA R2R program.

Time Range

2015-07-07 to 2015-07-24

Freshness

Static dataset from a specific cruise in 2015.

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean