NOAA Ship Pisces Underway Meteorological and Oceanographic Data from July-August 2015

Raw underway data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Pisces during a July-August 2015 cruise in the North Atlantic Ocean. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, which includes meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series measurements. Supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log is also included, archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling sea surface temperature and atmospheric conditions based on underway physical and meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation and track patterns based on logged navigational data.
• Studying temporal variability in oceanographic parameters based on the time series data mentioned.
• Correlating optical measurements with physical profile data for water column analysis.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple measurement types: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data collection spans a defined period from 2015-07-10 to 2015-08-04.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2015-08-04 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 (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Pisces and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2015-07 10 to 2015-08-04

Freshness

Last updated 2015-08-04 00:00:00

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean