Underway biological, meteorological, navigational, optical and physical data collected abo

NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer collected raw underway biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean from 2020-03-03 to 2020-03 08. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. The accession includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on the meteorological and physical data mentioned in the description.
• Analyzing marine biological activity patterns based on the biological and optical data mentioned in the description.
• Studying ship navigation and its environmental context based on the navigational data mentioned in the description.
• Conducting time-series analysis of oceanographic conditions during the 6-day cruise period.

Strengths

• Data covers a 6-day period from 2020-03-03 to 2020 -03-08.
• Integrates multiple data types: biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data was collected and archived through an automated process under the NOAA R2R program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2020-03-08 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2020-03-03 to 2020-03-08

Freshness

Last updated 2020-03-08 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean