NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter Underway Data from the Gulf of Mexico, October 2012

NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data in the Gulf of Mexico from October 19 to 29, 2012. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel aboard the ship submitted the data and associated metadata to the National Oceanographic Data Center. The data were archived through an automated process under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Correlating meteorological and physical oceanographic conditions based on the multiple data types logged.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental sensor readings based on the underway data.
• Studying time-series trends in optical and physical properties of Gulf of Mexico waters.
• Validating automated data archiving and submission workflows for research vessels.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple complementary types: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Collected over a specific 11-day period from 2012-10-19 to 2012-10-29.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2012-10-29 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• 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

2012-10 19 to 2012-10-29

Freshness

Last updated 2012-10-29 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Mexico