NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter Underway Data from the Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic, 2016

NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data in the Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean from June 30 to August 26, 2016. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The archive also includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, processed through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions in the Gulf of Mexico.
• Studying temporal variability in oceanographic profiles from the time series data.
• Validating satellite-derived optical measurements with in-situ shipboard observations.

Strengths

• Data spans a nearly two-month continuous cruise from 2016-06-30 to 2016-08-26.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Limitations

• Last updated 2016-08-26 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

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2016-06-30 to 2016-08-26

Freshness

2016-08 26 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean