NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer Underway Data in the North Atlantic Ocean, 2014

Raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged aboard the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. The data was collected in the North Atlantic Ocean over a three-day period from February 8 to February 10, 2014, and submitted to the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel. The dataset includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Correlating meteorological conditions with oceanographic readings based on the simultaneous collection of these data types.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and their environmental context based on the logged navigational and time series data.
• Studying short-term physical oceanographic phenomena in the North Atlantic based on the three-day, high-frequency sampling period.
• Validating automated data archiving and metadata logging processes for research vessels based on the NOAA R2R program methodology.

Strengths

• Data collection spans multiple interrelated domains: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical, allowing for integrated analysis.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, providing operational context.
• Data is part of a standardized automated archiving process under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2014-02-10 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI (National Centers for Environmental Information)

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2014-02-08 to 2014-02-10

Freshness

Last updated 2014-02-10 00:00:00

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean