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

The Gulf of Mexico is the geographic scope for this dataset of raw underway data collected aboard NOAA Ship Oregon II from 2017-04-28 to 2017 05-30. It contains meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS). NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Use Cases

• Modeling sea surface conditions based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and operational efficiency based on logged navigational data.
• Correlating optical measurements with physical oceanographic profiles for water quality studies.
• Creating time series analyses of environmental variables during the month-long cruise.

Strengths

• Data spans a continuous 33-day period from April 28 to May 30, 2017.
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, time series) from a single, coordinated cruise.
• 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.
• Last updated 2017-05-30; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI (National Centers for Environmental Information)

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2017-04-28 to 2017-05-30

Freshness

Last updated 2017-05-30 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Gulf of Mexico