NOAA Ship Pisces Underway Oceanographic and Meteorological Data, North Atlantic 2017

NOAA Ship Pisces collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the North Atlantic Ocean from 2017-09-12 to 2017-09-21. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, which was logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System and archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. The accession includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere heat exchange based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship track efficiency and navigation patterns based on logged navigational data.
• Calibrating satellite-derived ocean color products based on in-situ optical measurements.
• Studying short-term oceanic variability in the North Atlantic based on the time-series and profile data.

Strengths

• Data originates from a NOAA research vessel, suggesting institutional credibility.
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) logged during a single cruise.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log for context.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2017-09-21 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count and file size are 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

2017-09-12 to 2017-09-21

Freshness

Last updated 2017-09 21 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean