NOAA Ship Underway Physical and Meteorological Data for the North Pacific, 2001

From June 11 to November 20, 2001, this dataset contains physical oceanographic and meteorological observations collected aboard NOAA Ship TOWNSEND CROMWELL in the North Pacific. The data, which include surface water temperature and salinity, were submitted by shipboard technicians to the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) in support of the NOAA Shipboard Sensor Data Acquisition (NSSDAC) project.

Use Cases

• Calibrating or validating ocean surface models based on in-situ temperature and salinity data.
• Analyzing seasonal meteorological patterns in the North Pacific based on ship-collected observations.
• Training machine learning models for sea surface parameter estimation based on historical underway data.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 5-month time range from June to November 2001.
• Observations were collected during four distinct research cruises (TC-01-07, TC-01-08, TC-01 09, TC-01-11).
• Data originates from a NOAA research vessel and was submitted under a formal NOAA project (NSSDAC).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2001-11-20 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Collected via shipboard sensors aboard NOAA Ship TOWNSEND CROMWELL and submitted to NODC.

Time Range

2001-06-11 to 2001-11-20

Freshness

Last updated 2001-11-20 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific