NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown Underway Data from the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, 2017

NCEI Accession 0167272 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown. The data were collected in the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and North Atlantic Ocean from July 18 to August 22, 2017. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated metadata under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere heat and gas exchange based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions based on logged navigational data.
• Studying temporal variability in oceanic parameters based on the time series nature of the data.
• Calibrating satellite-derived oceanographic measurements using in-situ optical data.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a defined 36-day cruise from July 18 to August 22, 2017.
• 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 2017-08-22 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 via the NOAA R2R program.

Time Range

2017-07-18 to 2017-08-22

Freshness

Last updated 2017-08-22 00:00:00

Geography

Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic Ocean