Underway Meteorological and Oceanographic Data from NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter, 2015

From August 7 to September 28, 2015, raw underway data was logged aboard the NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter in the Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean. The dataset contains meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data submitted by the Office of Marine and Aviation Operations. It was archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Use Cases

• Modeling air-sea heat and gas exchange based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship track influence on local measurements based on navigational data.
• Studying temporal variability in oceanographic conditions based on time series data.
• Correlating optical properties with physical water column profiles based on the described data types.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 53-day cruise from 2015-08-07 to 2015-09-28.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series.
• Data collection follows a standardized NOAA R2R program process for archiving.

Limitations

• Last updated 2015-09-28 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, collected by NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter personnel.

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) and submitted via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Time Range

2015-08-07 to 2015-09-28

Freshness

Last updated 2015-09-28 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean