NOAA Ship Oregon II Underway Data in the Gulf of Mexico, September 2017

NCEI Accession 0170551 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oregon II. The data was collected in the Gulf of Mexico over a two-day period from September 2 to September 3, 2017, and submitted by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Correlating meteorological conditions with oceanographic readings based on the described time series data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and their environmental context based on the navigational and positional data.
• Validating satellite-derived oceanographic or atmospheric models using the in-situ physical and optical measurements.
• Studying short-term environmental variability in the Gulf of Mexico based on the high-frequency underway data collection.

Strengths

• Data originates from a NOAA research vessel, suggesting institutional credibility.
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) collected simultaneously.
• Cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log is included, providing operational context.

Limitations

• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2017-09-03 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2017-09-02 to 2017-09-03

Freshness

Last updated 2017-09-03 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Mexico