NOAA Ship Oregon II Underway Oceanographic Data from the Gulf of Mexico, September 2020

NOAA Ship Oregon II collected raw underway biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data in the Gulf of Mexico from 2020-09-04 to 2020-09-07. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log. The data were archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository automated process.

Use Cases

• Modeling oceanographic conditions based on underway physical and profile data.
• Analyzing biological activity patterns based on underway biological data.
• Correlating meteorological and navigational data for ship-track environmental studies.
• Creating time-series visualizations of multi-parameter ocean data.

Strengths

• Data collection spans multiple domains: biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data were collected over a specific 4-day period in September 2020.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2020-09-07 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oregon II and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2020-09-04 to 2020-09-07

Freshness

2020-09-07

Geography

Gulf of Mexico