NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter Underway Data from the Gulf of Mexico, 2018

NCEI Accession 0183686 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter. The data were collected in the Gulf of Mexico from 2018-11-09 to 2018-12-04 and submitted to the National Centers for Environmental Information by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Analyze meteorological conditions at sea 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 temporal patterns in the marine environment based on the described time series data.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 26-day cruise in the Gulf of Mexico from November to December 2018.
• 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 2018-12 04 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter and submitted by OMAO personnel via the NOAA R2R program.

Time Range

2018-11-09 to 2018-12-04

Freshness

Last updated 2018-12-04 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Mexico