NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter Underway Data from the Gulf of Mexico, October-November 2016

NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the Gulf of Mexico from 2016-10-23 to 2016-11-22. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System. The dataset also includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Analyze meteorological trends based on the underway meteorological data mentioned in the description
• Study oceanographic profiles based on the physical and profile data collected
• Correlate navigational paths with environmental measurements based on the navigational and time series data
• Validate automated data logging processes based on the Scientific Computer System (SCS) and NOAA R2R program details

Strengths

• Data spans a one-month continuous time series from October 23 to November 22, 2016.
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile) logged from a single research vessel.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2016-11-22 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

2016-10 23 to 2016-11-22

Freshness

2016-11-22 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Mexico