NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter Underway Meteorological and Oceanographic Data, 2015

NCEI Accession 0128347 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these data, collected in the Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean from 2015-04 14 to 2015-06-13. The dataset also includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions based on navigational and time series data.
• Studying optical properties of seawater in the Gulf of Mexico based on optical data mentioned in the description.
• Validating satellite-derived oceanographic measurements with in-situ physical data.

Strengths

• Data spans a two-month continuous time series from 2015-04-14 to 2015-06-13.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical, logged by an onboard Scientific Computer System.
• 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 2015-06-13 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2015-04-14 to 2015-06-13

Freshness

Last updated 2015-06-13 00:00:00.

Geography

Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean