NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette Underway Data from the North Pacific Ocean, March 2017

From March 8 to March 22, 2017, this dataset contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged aboard the NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette in the North Pacific Ocean. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, which was archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program. The accession also includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Correlating atmospheric conditions with oceanographic parameters based on the described meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions based on the navigational and optical data streams.
• Studying short-term temporal phenomena in a marine environment using the described time series data.
• Validating or calibrating satellite-derived oceanographic measurements with in-situ ship-based observations.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific two-week voyage from March 8 to March 22, 2017, providing a focused temporal snapshot.
• Includes multiple data streams (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) logged from a single research platform.
• Archived through the established NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program, suggesting a standardized collection process.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Last updated 2017-03-22 00:00:00; freshness should be verified for current research applications.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2017-03-08 to 2017-03-22

Freshness

Static dataset from a specific cruise in 2017.

Geography

North Pacific Ocean