NOAA Ship Oregon II Underway Meteorological and Oceanographic Data, 2017

Underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data collected aboard NOAA Ship Oregon II. The data were logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS) in the Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean from July 26 to September 30, 2017. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information.

Use Cases

• Modeling marine weather patterns based on underway meteorological data
• Analyzing ship navigation and track data for operational research
• Studying oceanographic profiles and time series for physical property changes
• Correlating optical measurements with other environmental variables

Strengths

• Data collection spans a specific 66-day cruise from July 26 to September 30, 2017
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series
• Data submitted through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) automated archiving program

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Last updated 2017-09-30 00:00:00; freshness should be verified
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated logging by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Oregon II, submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2017-07 26 to 2017-09-30

Freshness

Last updated 2017-09-30 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean