NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter Underway Data from the Gulf of Mexico, September 2016

From 2016-09-02 to 2016-10-01, raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data were logged aboard the NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter in the Gulf of Mexico. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) personnel submitted the data, which was archived by NCEI under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program. The dataset also includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).

Use Cases

• Analyze meteorological trends in the Gulf of Mexico based on the underway meteorological data.
• Study ship navigation patterns and their correlation with environmental conditions based on navigational data.
• Model physical oceanographic properties based on the physical and profile data mentioned.
• Conduct time series analysis of optical water properties based on the optical data.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific one-month time range from September to October 2016.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series.
• 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 2016-10-01 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 (SCS) aboard the NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2016-09-02 to 2016-10-01

Freshness

Last updated 2016-10-01 00:00:00.

Geography

Gulf of Mexico