NOAA Ship Pisces Underway Meteorological and Oceanographic Data, North Atlantic 2015

NODC Accession 0129541 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Pisces. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, collected in the North Atlantic Ocean from June 18 to July 1, 2015, under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere heat exchange based on underway meteorological and physical data
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions based on navigational and optical data
• Studying short-term oceanic profiles and time series for specific research voyages

Strengths

• Data includes multiple measurement types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, time series) logged from a single research vessel.
• Cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log provides supplementary context.
• Data collection occurred over a defined 14-day period from 2015-06-18 to 2015-07-01.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2015-07-01; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI, collected by NOAA Ship Pisces personnel under the NOAA R2R program.

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2015-06 18 to 2015-07-01

Freshness

Last updated 2015-07-01 00:00:00

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean