NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown Underway Data from the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean, 2018

NCEI Accession 0175450 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged aboard the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown. The data were collected in the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean from April 23 to June 6, 2018, and submitted to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel. The dataset includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Analyze meteorological trends over time based on the time series data mentioned in the description
• Correlate ship navigation with physical oceanographic measurements based on the navigational and physical data
• Validate satellite-derived optical data with in-situ shipboard measurements based on the optical data
• Study regional weather patterns in the Arabian Sea based on the geographic and temporal coverage

Strengths

• Data collection spans a specific 45-day period from 2018-04-23 to 2018-06 06
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Last updated 2018-06-06 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 the ship and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2018-04-23 to 2018-06-06

Freshness

Last updated 2018-06-06 00:00:00

Geography

Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean