NOAA Ship Oregon II Underway Data from the Gulf of Mexico, March-April 2017

NCEI Accession 0164319 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 from March 20 to April 20, 2017, and submitted to the National Centers for Environmental Information by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling marine-atmosphere interactions based on the described meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing temporal environmental changes based on the time series and profile data mentioned.
• Studying ship-based navigation and optical conditions in the Gulf of Mexico.
• Correlating cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log with the underway sensor data.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a defined 31-day period from 2017-03-20 to 2017-04 20.
• Includes multiple data types as described: 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 2017-04-20 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI (National Centers for Environmental Information)

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

2017-03-20 to 2017-04-20

Freshness

Last updated 2017-04-20 00:00:00.

Geography

Gulf of Mexico