NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette Underway Oceanographic Data, North Pacific 2015

From September 6 to October 2, 2015, raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data were collected aboard the NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette in the North Pacific Ocean. The data were logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System and submitted by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel. The dataset was archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Analyze meteorological conditions at sea based on the described meteorological data.
• Study ship navigation patterns based on the described navigational data.
• Model physical oceanographic properties based on the described physical data.
• Correlate optical measurements with environmental conditions based on the described optical data.

Strengths

• Data collection covers a 27-day continuous time series from a specific research vessel.
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) logged from a single integrated system.
• 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 2015-10-02 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 aboard the NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2015-09-06 to 2015-10-02

Freshness

Last updated 2015-10-02 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean