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The alongtrack data from the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown were recorded by the shipboard data acquisition system (SCS).
The alongtrack data are in four objects: position, wind, meteorology, bathymetry. The first several fields in each object are the same: time, location and course and speed. In the future all these objects will be combined into one object and the first 6 or 8 fields will not be repeated.
None available yet
course over the ground from satellite
Day of month, GMT, 1 - 31
latitude, negative = South
longitude, negative = West
Month of year, GMT, 1 - 12
speed over the ground from satellite
time of day; Greenwich Mean Time using 24 hour clock.
true wind direction
relative wind direction
true wind speed
relative wind speed
year
year day, Julian Calendar GMT. Useful for plotting time-series data