NOAA Ship Pisces Underway Meteorological and Oceanographic Data from 2015

From October 12 to November 24, 2015, raw underway data was collected aboard NOAA Ship Pisces in the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and North Atlantic Ocean. The dataset contains meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS). Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and supplementary cruise-level metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling marine weather patterns based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation and operational efficiency based on logged navigational data.
• Studying oceanographic profiles and time series for physical ocean properties.
• Validating satellite or model data against in-situ optical and physical measurements.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 44-day cruise from October to November 2015.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series.
• Data and metadata were submitted via an automated process under the NOAA R2R program, suggesting structured collection.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2015-11-24; 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 (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Pisces and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2015-10-12 to 2015-11-24

Freshness

Last updated 2015-11-24 00:00:00

Geography

Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic Ocean