NOAA Ship Meteorological and Oceanographic Data from the North Atlantic, June 2017

North Atlantic Ocean data collected aboard the NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter from 2017-06-10 to 2017-06 23. The dataset contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and cruise-level metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information 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 mentioned in the description
• Correlate ship navigation with environmental conditions based on the navigational and time series data mentioned in the description

Strengths

• Data covers a specific two-week cruise from 2017-06-10 to 2017-06-23
• 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 2017-06-23 00:00:00; freshness should be verified

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated archival from the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program, with data logged by shipboard Scientific Computer System and personnel.

Time Range

2017-06-10 to 2017-06-23

Freshness

Last updated 2017-06-23 00:00:00

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean