NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data in the Gulf of Mexico from 2019-05-13 to 2019-05 18. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. The accession includes supplementary cruise-level metadata logged in the Ship Daily Activity Log.
Use Cases
- Analyze meteorological trends based on underway meteorological data mentioned in the description
- Study physical oceanography profiles based on physical and profile data mentioned in the description
- Correlate ship navigation with environmental observations based on navigational data mentioned in the description
- Examine optical properties of seawater based on optical data mentioned in the description
Strengths
- Data collected over a 6-day period from 2019-05-13 to 2019-05-18
- 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 2019-05-18 00:00:00; freshness should be verified
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA_NCEI
- Collection Method
- Data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter and submitted by OMAO personnel via the NOAA R2R program.
- Time Range
- 2019-05-13 to 2019-05-18
- Freshness
- Last updated 2019-05-18 00:00:00
- Geography
- Gulf of Mexico