NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer Underway Data from the Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic, 2019

Underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data were collected aboard the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. The data were logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System during a cruise in the Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean from October 31 to November 20, 2019. 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

• Correlating meteorological conditions with oceanographic phenomena based on the concurrent collection of meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship track and environmental conditions for voyage planning based on navigational and time-series data.
• Studying optical properties of seawater in specific regions based on the optical data mentioned in the description.
• Validating satellite or model data with in-situ underway measurements based on the time-series nature of the collection.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a specific 21-day cruise from 2019-10-31 to 2019-11 20.
• Includes multiple concurrent data streams: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log provides supplementary context.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2019-11-20 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

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

2019-10-31 to 2019-11-20

Freshness

Last updated 2019-11-20 00:00:00.

Geography

Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean