Underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile and time series data col

NCEI Accession 0173207 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile and time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Pisces. The data were collected in the Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean from March 1 to May 6, 2018, and submitted to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) 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 ocean-atmosphere heat and gas exchange based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship track navigation and environmental conditions for voyage planning.
• Studying temporal and spatial variability of oceanographic properties from time series and profile data.
• Calibrating satellite-derived ocean color measurements using in-situ optical data.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a defined 67-day period from 2018-03-01 to 2018-05-06.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series.
• Processed and archived through the established NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) 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 2018-05-06 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated archival of raw data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS) and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2018-03-01 to 2018-05-06

Freshness

Last updated 2018-05-06 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean