NOAA Okeanos Explorer Underway Data from the Gulf of Mexico, March 2021

The Gulf of Mexico is the geographic scope for this dataset. It contains raw underway biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer from 2021-03-09 to 2021-03 -15. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean currents and water properties based on underway physical data.
• Analyzing marine biological activity patterns based on biological sensor data.
• Correlating meteorological conditions with oceanographic readings based on concurrent measurements.
• Studying ship navigation patterns and their environmental context based on navigational logs.

Strengths

• Data collection is automated via the Scientific Computer System, which likely ensures consistent logging.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data is archived through the established NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository 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 2021-03-15 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated logging by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer.

Time Range

2021-03-09 to 2021-03-15

Freshness

Last updated 2021-03-15 00:00:00.

Geography

Gulf of Mexico