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

The Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic Ocean, and North Pacific Ocean are the regions covered by raw underway data collected aboard NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown from 2017-05-26 to 2017-07 07. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System. The data were archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere heat exchange based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and efficiency based on logged navigational data.
• Studying optical properties of seawater across different ocean basins.
• Correlating physical oceanographic variables with meteorological conditions over time.

Strengths

• Data collection spans multiple ocean basins over a 42-day period from 2017-05-26 to 2017-07-07.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical, logged as time series.
• Data were submitted and archived through the formal NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Limitations

• Last updated 2017-07-07 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 logging by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS) and submission by OMAO personnel under the NOAA R2R program.

Time Range

2017-05-26 to 2017-07-07

Freshness

Last updated 2017-07-07 00:00:00.

Geography

Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific Ocean, South Pacific Ocean