NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow Underway Data from the North Atlantic Ocean, October 2020

NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data in the North Atlantic Ocean from 2020-10-04 to 2020-10-07. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log to NCEI. The data were archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) automated process.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere heat exchange based on underway meteorological and physical data
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions based on navigational and optical data
• Studying short-term oceanic profiles and time series for research voyage validation
• Integrating automated Scientific Computer System (SCS) logs with cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log

Strengths

• Data spans multiple domains: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Collected via an automated process under the NOAA R2R program, suggesting standardized collection.

Limitations

• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2020-10-07 00:00:00; freshness should be verified for current applications.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2020-10 04 to 2020-10-07

Freshness

Last updated 2020-10-07 00:00:00

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean