NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter Underway Data from the Gulf of Mexico, 2016

NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the Gulf of Mexico from 2016-08-07 to 2016-09 18. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and supplementary cruise-level metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The data were archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository automated process.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions based on navigational and time series data.
• Studying optical properties of Gulf of Mexico waters based on optical data mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a specific 43-day period from August to September 2016.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• 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 2016-09-18 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 aboard NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2016-08-07 to 2016-09-18

Freshness

Last updated 2016-09-18 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Mexico