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

North Pacific Ocean underway data collected aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette from 2017-03-29 to 2017-04 07. The dataset contains raw meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS). NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) personnel submitted the data and metadata, which were archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Use Cases

• Modeling air-sea heat and gas exchange based on meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and ocean currents based on navigational data.
• Calibrating satellite ocean color measurements based on in-situ optical data.
• Studying short-term environmental variability in the North Pacific based on the time series nature of the data.

Strengths

• Data collection is supported by the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program, indicating a standardized archival process.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).
• Covers multiple data domains (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) from a single research cruise.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2017-04-07; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated archival of raw underway data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS), submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2017-03-29 to 2017-04-07

Freshness

Last updated 2017-04-07 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean