NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter Underway Data from the Gulf of Mexico, September 2017

September 2017 raw underway data collected aboard NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter in the Gulf of Mexico. The dataset contains meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS). Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Use Cases

• Analyze meteorological conditions and trends based on the described meteorological data.
• Study oceanographic profiles and physical properties based on the described physical and profile data.
• Model ship navigation and its environmental context based on the described navigational data.
• Investigate optical properties of seawater based on the described optical data.
• Conduct time series analysis of integrated environmental parameters based on the described time series data.

Strengths

• Data spans a continuous 26-day period from 2017-09 04 to 2017-09-30.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).
• Data was archived through an automated process under the NOAA R2R program, suggesting a standardized collection pipeline.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2017-09-30 00:00:00; freshness should be verified for current applications.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI, Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO)

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2017-09-04 to 2017-09-30

Freshness

2017-09-30 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Mexico