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

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 from 2016-04-29 to 2016-05 31 and submitted to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions in the Gulf of Mexico.
• Creating time series profiles of optical and physical oceanographic properties.
• Validating satellite or model data with in-situ ship-based measurements.

Strengths

• Data spans a continuous 33-day period from April 29 to May 31, 2016.
• 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 2016-05-31 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 (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Oregon II and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2016-04-29 to 2016-05-31

Freshness

Last updated 2016-05-31 00:00:00.

Geography

Gulf of Mexico