NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter Underway Meteorological and Oceanographic Data, April-May 2016

NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean from 2016-04-10 to 2016-05-17. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, which was archived by the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. The dataset includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere heat exchange based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions based on navigational and time series data.
• Studying optical properties of seawater in specific regions based on optical data mentioned in the description.
• Correlating cruise-level operational events with sensor readings based on Ship Daily Activity Log metadata.

Strengths

• Data spans a specific 38-day cruise from April 10 to May 17, 2016.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary operational metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2016-05-17; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• 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

2016-04-10 to 2016-05-17

Freshness

Last updated 2016-05-17 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean