NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter Underway Data from the Gulf of Mexico, March-April 2015

The Gulf of Mexico is the geographic scope for this raw underway dataset collected aboard the NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter from March 3 to April 2, 2015. It contains meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS). The data and supplementary cruise-level metadata were submitted by NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) and archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Use Cases

• Correlating meteorological conditions with oceanographic profiles based on the described physical and profile data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental sensor readings based on the navigational and optical data mentioned.
• Modeling time-series trends in marine physical properties based on the logged underway and time series data.
• Validating automated data collection and archival processes for research vessels based on the R2R program description.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 31-day cruise in the Gulf of Mexico from 2015-03-03 to 2015-04-02.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).
• Collected and archived through an established automated process (NOAA R2R program).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2015-04-02; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI (National Centers for Environmental Information), via the nasa_earthdata platform.

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2015-03-03 to 2015-04 02

Freshness

Last updated 2015-04-02 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Gulf of Mexico