NOAA Ship Oregon II Underway Oceanographic and Meteorological Data, 2014

Raw underway data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oregon II during a cruise in the Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean from July to September 2014. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to the National Oceanographic Data Center. The dataset includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Analyze meteorological trends based on the underway meteorological data mentioned in the description
• Study oceanographic profiles based on the physical and profile data mentioned in the description
• Model ship navigation patterns based on the navigational data mentioned in the description
• Correlate optical measurements with physical ocean properties based on the optical data mentioned in the description

Strengths

• Data collection spans a specific two-month cruise from 2014-07-26 to 2014-09-29
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Last updated 2014-09-29 00:00:00; freshness should be verified

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard the ship and submitted by OMAO personnel under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Time Range

2014-07 26 to 2014-09-29

Freshness

Last updated 2014-09-29 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean