NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer Underway Data from the Gulf of Mexico, May 2019

NCEI Accession 0191709 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. The data were collected in the Gulf of Mexico from 2019-05-04 to 2019-05-06 and submitted to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel. The accession also includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling local weather patterns based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation and tracklines based on logged navigational data.
• Studying seawater properties based on collected physical oceanography data.
• Correlating optical measurements with other environmental variables.

Strengths

• Data originates from a dedicated NOAA research vessel, the Okeanos Explorer.
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) collected simultaneously.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Limitations

• Last updated 2019-05 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI, collected by NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer personnel.

Collection Method

Automated logging by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS), submitted via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Time Range

2019-05-04 to 2019-05-06

Freshness

Data covers a specific cruise from 2019-05-04 to 2019-05-06.

Geography

Gulf of Mexico