Underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile and time series data col

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 -09-01 to 2018-09 -30. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, which was archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. The dataset includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere heat and moisture fluxes based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions based on logged navigational and optical data.
• Studying temporal variability in oceanographic parameters based on the time series and profile data mentioned.
• Correlating cruise activities with environmental measurements based on the supplementary Ship Daily Activity Log metadata.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific, one-month time range (September 2018) for temporal analysis.
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, time series) logged from a single platform.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log for context.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2018-09-30 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2018-09-01 to 2018-09-30

Freshness

2018-09-30

Geography

Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean