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

NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the North Pacific Ocean over a 10-day period in October 2017. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, which was logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System and archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. The dataset includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere heat and gas exchange based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship track and environmental conditions based on integrated navigational and time series data.
• Studying short-term oceanic processes in the North Pacific based on the 10-day high-frequency collection period.
• Validating satellite-derived oceanographic measurements based on in-situ optical and physical data.

Strengths

• Data spans a specific 10-day period from 2017-10-01 to 2017 10-10, providing a focused temporal snapshot.
• Includes multiple data streams (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) logged from a single platform.
• Archived through an established automated process under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2017-10-10 00:00:00; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated logging by the Scientific Computer System aboard the NOAA ship, submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2017-10-01 to 2017-10-10

Freshness

Static dataset from a specific cruise in 2017.

Geography

North Pacific Ocean