NOAA Ship Pisces collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data in the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean from 2018-05-30 to 2018-06-21. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The dataset also includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.
Use Cases
- Correlating meteorological conditions with oceanographic profiles based on the described physical and profile data.
- Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental sensor readings based on the navigational and underway data.
- Studying temporal changes in marine optical properties based on the optical data mentioned in the description.
- Validating oceanographic models with in-situ time series measurements from a specific research cruise.
Strengths
- Data covers a specific 23-day research cruise from May 30 to June 21, 2018.
- Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series.
- Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
- Data was collected and archived through the established NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Last updated 2018-06-21 00:00:00; freshness should be verified for current applications.
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA_NCEI
- Collection Method
- Data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Pisces and submitted by OMAO personnel.
- Time Range
- 2018-05-30 to 2018-06-21
- Freshness
- Last updated 2018-06-21 00:00:00
- Geography
- Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean