NOAA Ship Oregon II Underway Data from the Gulf of Mexico, 2014

The Gulf of Mexico is the geographic scope for this collection of raw underway data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oregon II. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, which includes meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series information from a cruise spanning June 7 to July 19, 2014. The data was archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling marine weather patterns based on the meteorological data mentioned in the description.
• Analyzing ship navigation and operational efficiency based on the navigational data mentioned in the description.
• Studying oceanographic profiles and time series for physical properties in the Gulf of Mexico.
• Correlating optical measurements with other environmental variables collected during the cruise.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 43-day cruise in the Gulf of Mexico from June to July 2014.
• 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.
• Last updated 2014-07-19 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2014-06-07 to 2014-07-19

Freshness

Last updated 2014-07-19 00:00:00.

Geography

Gulf of Mexico