NOAA Ship Meteorological and Navigational Data from the Gulf of Mexico, 2016

NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data in the Gulf of Mexico from 2016-10-31 to 2016-11-03. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and supplementary cruise-level metadata to NCEI via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling atmospheric conditions based on meteorological time series data
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns based on logged navigational data
• Correlating optical and physical oceanographic measurements for water column studies
• Validating satellite-derived sea surface data with in-situ underway measurements

Strengths

• Data collected via a standardized automated process under the NOAA R2R program
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log
• Covers a specific 4-day voyage in the Gulf of Mexico

Limitations

• Last updated 2016-11 00:00:00; freshness should be verified
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• 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

2016-10-31 to 2016-11-03

Freshness

2016-11-03 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Mexico