NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette Underway Data from the North Pacific Ocean, 2019

NCEI Accession 0195406 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette. The data was collected in the North Pacific Ocean from 2019-04-13 to 2019-08-07 and submitted to the National Centers for Environmental Information via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere heat and moisture fluxes based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship track and environmental conditions for voyage optimization based on navigational and time series data.
• Calibrating satellite-derived sea surface measurements using in-situ optical and physical data.
• Studying seasonal variability in the North Pacific Ocean based on the four-month time series.

Strengths

• Data collection spans nearly four months (2019-04 13 to 2019-08-07), providing a continuous time series.
• Includes multiple data streams (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) logged from a single platform.
• Archived through the automated NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program, suggesting standardized processing.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2019-08-07 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard the ship and submitted by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel.

Time Range

2019-04-13 to 2019-08-07

Freshness

2019-08-07 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean