Underway Meteorological and Oceanographic Data from NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette, 2016

North Pacific Ocean and South Pacific Ocean data collected aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette from 2016-02-21 to 2016-04 09. The dataset contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System. NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations submitted the data and associated cruise-level metadata as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling air-sea heat and momentum fluxes based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship track navigation and ocean currents based on navigational data.
• Studying optical properties of seawater based on optical data mentioned in the description.
• Correlating physical oceanographic variables with meteorological conditions for time series analysis.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a 48-day period from February to April 2016.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data archived via an automated process under the NOAA R2R program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2016-04-09 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Raw data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard the ship and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2016-02-21 to 2016-04-09

Freshness

Last updated 2016-04-09 00:00:00.

Geography

North Pacific Ocean and South Pacific Ocean