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

NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the North Pacific Ocean from May 12 to June 4, 2017. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log. The NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program automated the archival process for this accession.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere heat and gas exchange based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions based on logged navigational and time series data.
• Calibrating satellite-derived ocean color products based on in-situ optical measurements.
• Studying short-term oceanic variability in the North Pacific based on the 24-day time series.

Strengths

• Data spans a 24-day continuous voyage in the North Pacific Ocean.
• Includes multiple data streams: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• 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 2017-06-04 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2017-05-12 to 2017-06-04

Freshness

Last updated 2017-06-04 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean