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

Raw underway data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oregon II during a 2018 cruise in the Gulf of Mexico. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The data collection period spanned from June 7 to July 20, 2018.

Use Cases

• Modeling sea surface temperature and atmospheric conditions based on physical and meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship track and environmental correlations based on navigational and profile data.
• Studying optical properties of Gulf of Mexico waters based on optical data mentioned in the description.
• Validating satellite-derived oceanographic measurements based on in-situ time series data.

Strengths

• Data collection covers a specific 44-day cruise from 2018-06-07 to 2018-07-20.
• 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 2018-07-20; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI, collected under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Collection Method

Automated archiving of raw data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS).

Time Range

2018-06-07 to 2018-07-20

Freshness

Last updated 2018-07-20 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Mexico