NOAA Ship Pisces Underway Oceanographic and Meteorological Data from September 2016

NOAA Ship Pisces collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data in the North Atlantic Ocean from 2016-09-21 to 2016-09 29. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) via an automated process under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Use Cases

• Correlating atmospheric and oceanic conditions based on the described meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship track navigation and environmental sampling patterns based on the navigational and profile data.
• Studying short-term temporal variability in ocean properties based on the time series data mentioned.
• Calibrating optical sensor models using the optical data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple measurement types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, time series) logged from a single research vessel.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).
• Data collection process is automated under the NOAA R2R program, which may suggest standardized formatting.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2016-09-29 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

2016-09-21 to 2016-09-29

Freshness

2016-09-29 00:00:00

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean