NOAA Ship Oregon II Underway Data from the Gulf of Mexico, April 2018

NOAA Ship Oregon II collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data in the Gulf of Mexico from April 2 to April 22, 2018. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System, along with cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log. The data were archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling sea surface temperature and atmospheric conditions based on physical and meteorological data.
• Analyzing vessel track and environmental conditions based on navigational and time series data.
• Correlating optical measurements with physical oceanographic profiles for water quality studies.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a continuous 21-day period in April 2018.
• 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.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2018-04-22 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated archival from the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Time Range

2018-04-02 to 2018-04-22

Freshness

Last updated 2018-04-22 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Mexico