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 on 2016-10-01. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The data were archived as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling marine meteorological conditions based on the described underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns in the Gulf of Mexico based on the navigational data.
• Studying time series of physical oceanographic properties based on the described physical data.
• Correlating optical measurements with other environmental variables logged by the ship's system.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple measurement types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) from a single source.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data collection is tied to a specific, documented NOAA vessel and date (2016-10-01).

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Last updated 2016-10-01 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

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

2016-10-01

Freshness

Last updated 2016-10-01 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Gulf of Mexico