NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown Underway Oceanographic and Meteorological Data, 2018

NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data from 2018-09-09 to 2018-10-24 in the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and multiple ocean basins. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The dataset also includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling air-sea heat and gas exchange based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship track navigation patterns based on logged positional data.
• Calibrating satellite-derived ocean color products based on in-situ optical measurements.
• Studying short-term oceanic and atmospheric variability in the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico based on the time-series nature of the data.

Strengths

• Data spans a 46-day continuous cruise from September to October 2018.
• 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 2018-10-24; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2018-09-09 to 2018-10-24

Freshness

Last updated 2018-10 24 00:00:00

Geography

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