NOAA Ship Oregon II Underway Data from the Gulf of Mexico, May 2015

May 2015 raw underway data collected by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oregon II in the Gulf of Mexico. The dataset contains meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data, submitted by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel. It was archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Use Cases

• Modeling surface meteorological conditions based on the described underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing oceanographic profiles based on the described physical and profile data.
• Correlating ship navigation with environmental measurements based on the described navigational and time series data.
• Studying optical properties of seawater based on the described optical data.

Strengths

• Data collection is temporally focused, covering a specific month (May 2015).
• Data originates from an authoritative source, NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations.
• Dataset includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2015-05-31 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2015-05-01 to 2015-05-31

Freshness

2015-05-31

Geography

Gulf of Mexico