NOAA Ship Oregon II Underway Data from the Gulf of Mexico, October-November 2013

NODC Accession 0116135 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and 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 one-month period from October 24 to November 22, 2013, and submitted by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling marine meteorological conditions based on the described underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns in the Gulf of Mexico based on the navigational data.
• Studying oceanographic profiles and time series for physical and optical properties.
• Validating automated data logging and archival processes for scientific ship operations.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a defined one-month period from 2013-10-24 to 2013-11 22.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data was archived through an automated process under the NOAA R2R program.

Limitations

• Last updated 2013-11-22 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

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Oregon II and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2013-10-24 to 2013-11-22

Freshness

2013-11-22 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Mexico