Underway biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, physical and time series data

NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer collected raw underway biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean from March 2018 to March 2020. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, which was logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System and archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. The dataset includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Modeling oceanographic conditions based on underway physical and optical data.
• Analyzing biological activity patterns based on logged biological data.
• Correlating meteorological and navigational data for ship-track environmental studies.
• Conducting time-series analysis of marine variables over the two-year cruise period.

Strengths

• Data spans a two-year time range from 2018-03-22 to 2020-03-25.
• Includes multiple data types: biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Collected via a standardized 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 2020-03-25; 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

2018-03 22 to 2020-03-25

Freshness

Last updated 2020-03-25 00:00:00.

Geography

Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean