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

NCEI Accession 0189634 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, and 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 2019-05-12 to 2019-05-25 and submitted to the National Centers for Environmental Information by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel. The archive includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log and was processed through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling air-sea heat and moisture fluxes based on the meteorological data mentioned in the description.
• Analyzing ship track and ocean current interactions based on the navigational data mentioned in the description.
• Studying temporal patterns in marine environmental variables based on the time series data mentioned in the description.
• Correlating optical water properties with physical measurements based on the optical and physical data mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a specific two-week period from 2019-05-12 to 2019-05-25.
• Includes multiple data streams: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, and time series.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Archived through the automated NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository 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 2019-05-25 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

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

2019-05-12 to 2019-05-25

Freshness

Last updated 2019-05-25 00:00:00.

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean