NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer Underway Data from the North Atlantic Ocean, July-August 2019

NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the North Atlantic Ocean from 2019-07-19 to 2019-08-01. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and supplementary cruise-level metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The data were archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Correlating meteorological conditions with oceanographic readings based on the described underway data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and their environmental context based on logged navigational and time series data.
• Studying short-term physical oceanographic phenomena in a specific region based on the two-week cruise data.
• Validating or supplementing satellite-derived ocean data with in-situ physical measurements.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific two-week cruise from 2019-07-19 to 2019-08-01, providing a focused temporal snapshot.
• Includes multiple data streams (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) logged from a single research vessel.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2019-08 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2019-07-19 to 2019-08-01

Freshness

Last updated 2019-08-01 00:00:00.

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean