NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette Underway Data in the North Pacific Ocean, March-April 2019

North Pacific Ocean underway data collected aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette from 2019-03-30 to 2019-04-13. 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 supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL) as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Use Cases

• Modeling marine weather patterns based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation and track patterns based on logged navigational data.
• Studying oceanographic conditions based on physical and optical measurements.
• Validating automated data collection and archival pipelines for research vessels.

Strengths

• Data spans a specific 15-day voyage from March 30 to April 13, 2019.
• Includes multiple data streams: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Collected via an automated process under the NOAA R2R program, suggesting standardized logging.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2019-04-13; 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 logging by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS) and manual entry in the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL) by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2019-03 30 to 2019-04-13

Freshness

Last updated 2019-04-13 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean