NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer Underway Data in the North Atlantic Ocean, September 2018

NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the North Atlantic Ocean from 2018-09-13 to 2018-09 19. The data were logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS) and submitted by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel. This accession also includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, archived via 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 track and environmental conditions based on navigational and time series data.
• Correlating optical measurements with other physical parameters for water column studies.

Strengths

• Data collection covers a specific 7-day cruise from 2018-09-13 to 2018-09-19.
• Includes multiple data streams: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2018-09-19 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 Okeanos Explorer and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2018-09-13 to 2018-09-19

Freshness

Last updated 2018-09-19 00:00:00.

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean