NOAA Ship Underway Meteorological and Oceanographic Data from the Gulf of Mexico, May 2019

NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the Gulf of Mexico from 2019-05-08 to 2019-05-10. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these data and supplementary cruise-level metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The data were archived through the automated NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling marine atmospheric conditions based on the meteorological data mentioned in the description
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns based on the navigational data mentioned in the description
• Studying short-term oceanographic time series based on the physical and optical data mentioned in the description
• Correlating ship activity with environmental measurements based on the supplementary cruise-level metadata

Strengths

• Data collected by NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations, an authoritative source
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log
• Archived through the formal NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Last updated 2019-05-10; freshness should be verified

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

2019-05-08 to 2019-05-10

Freshness

Last updated 2019-05-10 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Mexico