NOAA Ship Delaware II Underway Physical and Meteorological Data, 2006

NOAA Ship Delaware II collected this dataset of underway physical and meteorological observations in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. The data covers a one-month period from January 24 to February 23, 2006. It is published by NOAA NCEI and hosted on the NASA Earthdata platform.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions using concurrent physical and meteorological variables (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Analyzing temporal trends in sea surface conditions from ship-based time-series data (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Validating satellite-derived oceanographic measurements with in-situ ship observations (inferred from domain, verify after download)

Strengths

• Published by NOAA NCEI, a recognized authority for oceanographic data.
• Has a precisely defined temporal coverage of one month in 2006.
• Geographic scope is clearly specified as the Northwest Atlantic.

Limitations

• Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
• Last updated 2006-02-23 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 instruments.

Time Range

2006-01-24 to 2006-02-23

Freshness

Last updated 2006-02-23 00:00:00

Geography

Northwest Atlantic Ocean