NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter Underway Data from the North Atlantic Ocean, May-June 2016

Raw underway data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter during a cruise in the North Atlantic Ocean from 2016-05-21 to 2016-06-20. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, which includes meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series measurements. The data were archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere heat and gas exchange based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship track and environmental conditions based on navigational and optical data.
• Studying temporal variability in marine parameters based on the time series data mentioned.
• Validating satellite-derived oceanographic products based on in-situ profile data.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a continuous 31-day period from 2016-05-21 to 2016-06-20.
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, time series) from a single research cruise.
• 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 2016-06-20; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated archival from shipboard Scientific Computer System logs via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Time Range

2016-05 21 to 2016-06-20

Freshness

Last updated 2016-06-20 00:00:00

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean