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

From September 11 to September 30, 2019, this dataset contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged aboard the NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette in the North Pacific Ocean. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The data were archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Analyze marine meteorological conditions based on the described underway meteorological data.
• Study ship navigation patterns and ocean currents based on the navigational data.
• Model physical oceanographic properties based on the described physical data.
• Conduct time-series analysis of environmental variables during the cruise period.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 20-day cruise from September 11 to 30, 2019.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data archived through the established NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2019-09-30; freshness should be verified for current applications.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard the NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2019-09 11 to 2019-09-30

Freshness

Last updated 2019-09-30 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean