NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette Underway Data from the North Atlantic and Pacific, 2014-2015

NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data across the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these time series data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from August 30, 2014, to October 1, 2015. The data were archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) automated process.

Use Cases

• Modeling marine weather patterns based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation and track data for operational research.
• Studying ocean optical properties based on the optical data mentioned.
• Correlating physical oceanographic measurements with time and location.

Strengths

• Data spans over a year of continuous collection from August 2014 to October 2015.
• Includes multiple data types: 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 2015-10-01 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 the ship and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2014-08 30 to 2015-10-01

Freshness

Last updated 2015-10-01 00:00:00

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean and North Pacific Ocean