NOAA Ship Pisces collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile and time series data in the Gulf of Mexico from August 22 to September 12, 2014. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System to the National Oceanographic Data Center. Supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log is also included via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.
Use Cases
- Analyze meteorological conditions based on underway meteorological data mentioned in the description
- Study physical oceanographic profiles based on physical and profile data mentioned in the description
- Track vessel navigation and associated environmental readings based on navigational and time series data mentioned in the description
- Correlate optical measurements with other environmental parameters based on optical data mentioned in the description
Strengths
- Data collection spans a specific 22-day period from 2014-08-22 to 2014-09-12
- Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log
- Data originates from a NOAA research vessel and was archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository 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 2014-09-12 00:00:00; freshness should be verified
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA_NCEI
- Collection Method
- Data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Pisces and submitted by OMAO personnel.
- Time Range
- 2014-08-22 to 2014-09-12
- Geography
- Gulf of Mexico