NOAA Ship ALBATROSS IV Underway Physical and Meteorological Data, 1999-2001

Physical and meteorological data were collected from NOAA Ship ALBATROSS IV while underway in the Northwest Atlantic from November 1999 to May 2001. The dataset includes surface water conductivity, temperature, and salinity, as well as barometric pressure, relative humidity, air temperature, wind direction, and speed. It was collected in support of the NOAA Shipboard Sensor Data Acquisition (NSSDAC) program.

Use Cases

• Modeling sea surface temperature and salinity dynamics based on underway sensor data.
• Analyzing meteorological conditions (wind, pressure, humidity) over the ocean based on ship-collected measurements.
• Correlating atmospheric and oceanic variables for climate studies based on the concurrent collection of both data types.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific geographic region (Northwest Atlantic, limit-40W) and a defined time period (1999-11-01 to 2001-05-25).
• Includes concurrent measurements of multiple physical and meteorological variables from a single platform.

Limitations

• Last updated 2001-05-25 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Collected via shipboard sensors while NOAA Ship ALBATROSS IV was underway.

Time Range

1999-11-01 to 2001-05-25

Freshness

Last updated 2001-05-25 00:00:00

Geography

Northwest Atlantic (limit-40W)