NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown Underway Data in the North Atlantic Ocean, 2018
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Description
NCEI Accession 0175368 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown. The data were collected in the North Atlantic Ocean from 2018-02-15 to 2018-03 02 and submitted to the National Centers for Environmental Information 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
Modeling North Atlantic weather patterns based on underway meteorological data.
Analyzing ship navigation and track data for route optimization studies.
Studying ocean optical properties based on the optical data mentioned.
Correlating physical oceanographic measurements with meteorological conditions.
Validating satellite-derived ocean data with in-situ time series measurements.
Strengths
Data collected over a specific 16-day period from 2018-02-15 to 2018-03-02.
Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
Archived through the established NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Last updated 2018-03-02 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
Source
NOAA_NCEI, Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO).
Collection Method
Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown and submitted to NCEI.
Time Range
2018-02-15 to 2018-03-02.
Freshness
Last updated 2018-03-02 00:00:00.
Geography
North Atlantic Ocean.
License is unknown; terms must be verified before use.