NOAA Ship Miller Freeman Underway Physical and Meteorological Data from 2002

NOAA Ship Miller Freeman collected underway surface temperature and salinity data in the North Pacific, Bering Sea, and Gulf of Alaska. The data were gathered in early 2002 as part of the NOAA Shipboard Sensor Data Acquisition (NSSDAC) project. This time-series dataset supports coastal monitoring and oceanographic research.

Use Cases

• Modeling sea surface temperature dynamics based on underway physical data
• Analyzing coastal meteorological patterns based on collected weather data
• Calibrating satellite-derived sea surface salinity measurements based on in-situ sensor data

Strengths

• Data collected by the authoritative NOAA organization
• Covers a specific two-month time range from January to March 2002
• Focuses on specific physical variables like surface temperature and salinity

Limitations

• Last updated 2002-03-26 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

Underway sensor data collection aboard NOAA Ship Miller Freeman

Time Range

2002-01-29 to 2002-03-26

Freshness

Last updated 2002-03-26 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific, Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, coastal Alaska/Washington/Oregon