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

NOAA Ship Pisces collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data in the Gulf of Mexico from August 24 to September 10, 2015. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System to the National Oceanographic Data Center. The dataset also includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling sea surface temperature and atmospheric conditions based on underway physical data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental correlations based on logged navigational and meteorological data.
• Studying temporal oceanographic profiles based on the time series and profile data mentioned.
• Validating satellite-derived optical measurements based on in-situ optical data.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 18-day cruise in the Gulf of Mexico from 2015-08-24 to 2015-09-10.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series.
• 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 2015-09-10 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Pisces and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2015-08-24 to 2015-09-10

Freshness

Last updated 2015-09-10 00:00:00.

Geography

Gulf of Mexico