Underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile and time series data col

Gulf of Mexico raw underway data collected aboard NOAA Ship Oregon II from June 7 to July 20, 2017. The dataset includes meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System. NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations submitted the data and associated cruise-level metadata as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere heat exchange based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing temporal patterns in water column properties based on profile and time series data.
• Correlating ship navigation tracks with optical measurements for spatial analysis.
• Validating satellite-derived oceanographic parameters with in-situ underway measurements.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a focused 44-day period in the Gulf of Mexico.
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, time series) from a single cruise.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Archived via an automated process under the NOAA R2R program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2017-07-20 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.

Time Range

2017-06-07 to 2017-07-20

Freshness

Last updated 2017-07-20 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Mexico