NOAA Ship Pisces Underway Oceanographic Data in the Gulf of Mexico, March 2021

Raw underway data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Pisces during a cruise in the Gulf of Mexico from 2021-03-08 to 2021-03 11. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, which includes biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series measurements. The data were archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program and include supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Modeling oceanographic conditions based on the described physical and profile data.
• Analyzing marine biological activity patterns based on the described biological data.
• Correlating meteorological and navigational data for ship-track environmental studies.
• Creating time series visualizations of underway sensor readings mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Data spans multiple oceanographic domains: biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data collection is part of the structured 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 2021-03-11 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2021-03-08 to 2021-03-11

Freshness

Last updated 2021-03-11 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Mexico