NOAA Ship Pisces Underway Data from the Gulf of Mexico, 2013

The Gulf of Mexico is the geographic scope for this collection of raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data. It was logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Pisces during a cruise from October 22 to December 7, 2013. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on meteorological data mentioned in the description
• Analyzing ship track patterns based on navigational data mentioned in the description
• Studying temporal changes in water properties based on physical and time series data mentioned in the description
• Correlating optical measurements with other environmental variables mentioned in the description

Strengths

• Data collection spans a specific 47-day period from 2013-10-22 to 2013-12 07
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, time series) logged by an automated shipboard system
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Last updated 2013-12-07 00:00:00; freshness should be verified
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated logging by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Pisces, submitted by OMAO personnel under the NOAA R2R program.

Time Range

2013-10-22 to 2013-12-07

Freshness

Last updated 2013-12-07 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Mexico