NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown Underway Data from the North Atlantic Ocean, March 2019

Raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged aboard the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown. The data was collected in the North Atlantic Ocean from March 1 to March 29, 2019, and submitted to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Analyze meteorological trends based on the described underway meteorological data.
• Study ship navigation patterns based on the described navigational data.
• Model oceanographic physical properties based on the described physical data.
• Correlate optical measurements with environmental conditions based on the described optical data.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 29-day voyage from March 1 to March 29, 2019.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Data is part of the formal NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) archival program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2019-03-29; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard the ship and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2019-03-01 to 2019-03-29

Freshness

Last updated 2019-03-29 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean