NOAA Ship Pisces Underway Meteorological and Oceanographic Data from November 2016

North Atlantic Ocean data collected aboard NOAA Ship Pisces from 2016-11-12 to 2016-11 18. The dataset contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System. NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations submitted the data and supplementary cruise-level metadata as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling air-sea heat and momentum fluxes based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship track navigation and environmental conditions based on navigational and physical data.
• Calibrating remote sensing instruments based on in-situ optical measurements.
• Studying short-term oceanographic variability based on the time series nature of the data.

Strengths

• Data spans a specific 7-day voyage from 2016-11-12 to 2016-11-18.
• Includes multiple data streams: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Limitations

• Last updated 2016-11-18 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

Automated archival from the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program, with data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2016-11-12 to 2016-11-18

Freshness

2016-11-18 00:00:00

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean