Underway Oceanographic and Meteorological Data from NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter, 2018

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 2018-01-14 to 2018-03 16. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, which was archived by NCEI under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. The accession includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Modeling air-sea heat and moisture fluxes based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and ocean currents based on navigational data.
• Studying temporal variability in ocean properties based on time series and profile data.
• Calibrating satellite ocean color measurements based on optical data mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Data spans a two-month continuous cruise from January to March 2018.
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, time series) from a single platform.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2018-03-16 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated archival from the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard the ship under the NOAA R2R program.

Time Range

2018-01-14 to 2018-03-16

Freshness

Last updated 2018-03-16 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean