NOAA Ship Oregon II Underway Data from the Gulf of Mexico, October-November 2018

From October 10 to November 21, 2018, this dataset contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data logged aboard the NOAA Ship Oregon II in the Gulf of Mexico. The data were submitted by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel and archived by the National Centers for Environmental Information as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling sea surface conditions based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns in the Gulf of Mexico based on logged navigational data.
• Studying water column properties based on profile and physical data.
• Correlating optical measurements with other environmental variables over time.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 43-day cruise in the Gulf of Mexico from 2018-10-10 to 2018-11-21.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data collection was automated under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2018-11-21 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oregon II and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2018-10-10 to 2018-11-21

Freshness

2018-11 21 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Mexico