NOAA Ship Pisces Underway Meteorological and Oceanographic Data from July-August 2016

NOAA Ship Pisces collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data in the North Atlantic Ocean from 2016-07-03 to 2016-08 03. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, which was archived by the National Centers for Environmental Information under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. The dataset includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Correlating meteorological conditions with oceanographic profiles based on the described physical and profile data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental sensor readings based on the described navigational and underway data.
• Studying temporal variability of oceanographic parameters based on the described time series data.
• Validating satellite-derived ocean data using in-situ optical and physical measurements mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a one-month continuous cruise from July to August 2016.
• 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 2016-08-03 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

2016-07-03 to 2016-08-03

Freshness

Last updated 2016-08-03 00:00:00

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean