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

NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data in the North Atlantic Ocean from 2019-08-06 to 2019-09 15. 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 an automated process under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling marine weather patterns based on underway meteorological data
• Analyzing ship navigation and track data for operational oceanography
• Studying physical oceanographic properties from the time series measurements
• Correlating optical sensor readings with other environmental variables

Strengths

• Data collection spans a specific 41-day cruise from 2019-08-06 to 2019-09-15
• Includes multiple data streams: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log
• Archived through a formal, automated NOAA program (R2R)

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Last updated 2019-09-15 00:00:00; freshness should be verified
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

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

2019-08-06 to 2019-09-15

Freshness

Last updated 2019-09-15 00:00:00

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean