Underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical and time series data collected ab

NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data in the North Atlantic Ocean from 2019-08-31 to 2019-09-01. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, which was archived by the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. The dataset includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Analyze meteorological conditions at sea based on the described meteorological data.
• Study ship navigation patterns based on the described navigational data.
• Correlate optical and physical oceanographic measurements based on the described optical and physical data.
• Model short-term environmental time series based on the described time series data.

Strengths

• Data collection is automated via the Scientific Computer System, suggesting systematic logging.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data is archived under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program, indicating a formal process.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2019-09-01 00:00:00; 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

2019-08-31 to 2019-09-01

Freshness

Last updated 2019-09-01 00:00:00

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean