NOAA Ship Pisces Underway Oceanographic and Meteorological Data, 2017

NOAA Ship Pisces collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the North Atlantic Ocean from 2017-08 30 to 2017-09-08. The data were logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System and submitted to the National Centers for Environmental Information as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. This accession includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere heat and gas exchange based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions based on logged navigational and optical data.
• Creating time-series profiles of oceanographic variables based on the described profile and time-series data.

Strengths

• Data collected from a dedicated NOAA research vessel, suggesting controlled instrumentation.
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) for a single cruise, enabling cross-variable analysis.
• 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 2017-09-08 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 Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel.

Time Range

2017-08-30 to 2017-09-08

Freshness

Last updated 2017-09-08 00:00:00.

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean