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

The Gulf of Mexico is the geographic scope for this collection of raw underway biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data. It was logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oregon II during a cruise from 2020-09-08 to 2020-09-23. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and supplementary cruise-level metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling oceanographic conditions based on underway physical and profile data.
• Analyzing marine biological activity patterns based on biological and optical measurements.
• Correlating meteorological events with oceanographic changes based on concurrent time series data.
• Studying ship-based navigation and environmental sampling patterns based on navigational and cruise log metadata.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 16-day cruise from 2020-09-08 to 2020-09-23, providing a temporally bounded snapshot.
• Includes multiple concurrent data streams (biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, time series).
• Cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log provides operational context.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2020-09-23 00:00:00; freshness should be verified for current applications.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated archival via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program from data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System.

Time Range

2020-09-08 to 2020-09-23

Freshness

Last updated 2020-09-23 00:00:00.

Geography

Gulf of Mexico