NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette Underway Data in the North Pacific Ocean, August 2016

The North Pacific Ocean is the geographic scope for this collection of raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data logged aboard the NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, which was archived by the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. The data covers a specific voyage from August 3 to August 25, 2016.

Use Cases

• Correlating atmospheric conditions with oceanographic variables based on the described meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship track and environmental conditions for voyage planning based on navigational and time series data.
• Studying optical properties of seawater in a specific region and time period based on the optical data mentioned.
• Validating satellite-derived oceanographic or meteorological products with concurrent ship-based measurements.

Strengths

• Data originates from a dedicated NOAA research vessel, suggesting authoritative collection methods.
• Includes multiple concurrent data streams (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) for a single voyage.
• 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 2016-08-25 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

2016-08 03 to 2016-08-25

Freshness

Last updated 2016-08-25 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean