NOAA Ship Delaware II Underway Physical and Meteorological Data, April 2006

NOAA Ship Delaware II collected underway physical and meteorological data in the North Atlantic from 2006-04-05 to 2006-04-27. The dataset is published by NOAA NCEI and accessed via the NASA Earthdata platform. Columns likely contain measurements such as sea surface temperature, salinity, wind speed, and atmospheric pressure.

Use Cases

• Calibrating satellite sea surface temperature measurements (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Analyzing springtime atmospheric and oceanic conditions in the North Atlantic (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Training models for ship-track data interpolation (inferred from domain, verify after download)

Strengths

• Published by NOAA NCEI, a primary U.S. government data repository.
• Data collection spans a specific 23-day period in April 2006.
• Geographic coverage is explicitly the North Atlantic.

Limitations

• Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
• Last updated 2006-04-27 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Collected by NOAA Ship Delaware II via underway shipboard sensors.

Time Range

2006-04-05 to 2006-04-27

Freshness

Last updated 2006-04-27 00:00:00

Geography

North Atlantic