NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette Underway Data from the North Pacific Ocean, 2018

NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the North Pacific Ocean from August 29 to September 15, 2018. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel logged this data via the ship's Scientific Computer System and submitted it to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The archive also includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, processed through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

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 remote sensing instruments using concurrent optical and physical oceanographic measurements
• Studying short-term environmental variability in the North Pacific based on the 18-day time series

Strengths

• Data spans 18 consecutive days from 2018-08-29 to 2018-09-15, providing a continuous time series
• Includes multiple data streams: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical, likely enabling multi-modal analysis
• Collected and archived through the established NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) automated process

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Last updated 2018-09-15; freshness should be verified for current applications
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale ML

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI, Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO)

Collection Method

Automated logging by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard the ship, submitted via the NOAA R2R program.

Time Range

2018-08 29 to 2018-09-15

Freshness

Last updated 2018-09-15 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean