NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the North Pacific Ocean on 2019-06-11. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log to NCEI. The data were archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) automated process.
Use Cases
- Modeling ship track environmental conditions based on the described navigational and meteorological data.
- Analyzing temporal patterns in oceanographic variables based on the described time series and physical data.
- Calibrating optical sensor readings from research vessels based on the described optical data.
- Studying data integration and metadata standards for automated ship-to-archive systems like NOAA R2R.
Strengths
- Data includes multiple concurrent measurement types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
- Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).
- Archived through an established automated process (NOAA R2R) designed for ship data.
Limitations
- Row count, column definitions, and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Last updated 2019-06-11 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA_NCEI via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.
- Collection Method
- Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette and submitted by OMAO personnel.
- Time Range
- 2019-06-11
- Freshness
- Single-day snapshot from 2019-06-11.
- Geography
- North Pacific Ocean