NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown Underway Data in the North Atlantic Ocean, 2018

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.