NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter Underway Data from the North Atlantic Ocean, May 2014

NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the North Atlantic Ocean from 2014-05 05 to 2014-05-09. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, which was logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System and archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. The accession also includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Correlating meteorological conditions with oceanographic readings based on the described underway data streams.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and their environmental context based on the navigational and time series data.
• Studying the integration of optical and physical sensor data from a moving research vessel.
• Validating automated data archiving pipelines for scientific ship logs based on the NOAA R2R program mention.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple concurrent measurement types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains both raw instrument data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Collected via a standardized automated process under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2014-05-09 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

2014-05-05 to 2014-05-09

Freshness

Last updated 2014-05-09 00:00:00.

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean