NOAA Ship Pisces Underway Data in the North Atlantic Ocean, October 2016

NOAA Ship Pisces collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the North Atlantic Ocean from 2016-10-18 to 2016-10 20. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and supplementary cruise-level metadata to NCEI. The data were archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) automated process.

Use Cases

• Correlating meteorological conditions with oceanographic readings based on the described time series data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions based on the logged navigational and physical data.
• Validating automated data logging processes for scientific computer systems based on the described R2R program methodology.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple sensor types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) for integrated analysis.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).
• Data collection covers a specific three-day voyage in October 2016.

Limitations

• Last updated 2016-10-20 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• 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 Pisces and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2016-10-18 to 2016-10-20

Freshness

Data is from a single voyage in 2016.

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean