NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown Underway Data in the North Atlantic, April 2019

NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the North Atlantic Ocean from April 9 to April 30, 2019. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these data and supplementary cruise-level metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The automated archiving process was developed under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Correlating atmospheric and oceanic conditions based on the described meteorological and physical data streams.
• Analyzing ship track and environmental interaction based on navigational and time series data.
• Calibrating remote sensing instruments using the described optical measurements collected at sea.
• Studying short-term environmental variability in the North Atlantic based on the three-week time series.

Strengths

• Data originates from a dedicated NOAA research vessel, suggesting authoritative collection methods.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Covers a specific three-week period from 2019-04-09 to 2019-04-30 in a defined region.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2019-04-30; 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 the ship and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2019-04 09 to 2019-04-30

Freshness

Last updated 2019-04-30 00:00:00

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean