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

NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the North Pacific Ocean from October 4 to 12, 2019. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log. The NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program automated the archival process for this accession.

Use Cases

• Modeling air-sea heat and moisture fluxes based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship track and environmental conditions based on navigational and time series data.
• Calibrating remote sensing instruments based on in-situ optical and physical measurements.
• Studying short-term oceanographic phenomena in the North Pacific based on the cruise's temporal and spatial coverage.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple sensor types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) for integrated analysis.
• Cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log provides operational context.
• Data collection follows a defined NOAA R2R program automated archival process.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2019-10-12 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2019-10-04 to 2019-10-12

Freshness

Last updated 2019-10-12 00:00:00.

Geography

North Pacific Ocean