NOAA Ship Oregon II Underway Data from the Gulf of Mexico, March-April 2016

NCEI Accession 0150823 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 were collected in the Gulf of Mexico from March 31 to April 22, 2016, and submitted to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Analyzing meteorological trends in the Gulf of Mexico based on the described underway meteorological data.
• Studying oceanographic profiles and physical properties based on the described profile and physical data.
• Correlating navigational information with optical measurements based on the described navigational and optical data.
• Building time-series models of environmental variables based on the described time series data collection.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a focused 23-day period from March 31 to April 22, 2016.
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, time series) logged from a single research vessel.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2016-04-22 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Oregon II and submitted by OMAO personnel via the NOAA R2R program.

Time Range

2016-03 31 to 2016-04-22

Freshness

Last updated 2016-04-22 00:00:00.

Geography

Gulf of Mexico