NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter Underway Data in the North Atlantic Ocean, August 2018

NCEI Accession 0183685 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 was collected in the North Atlantic Ocean from 2018-08-21 to 2018-08-31 and submitted to the National Centers for Environmental Information by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel as part of 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 influence on local optical measurements based on navigational and optical data.
• Studying short-term oceanic profiles and time series for physical oceanography research.
• Correlating ship activity logs with environmental sensor readings for operational research.

Strengths

• Data spans a specific 11-day cruise from 2018-08-21 to 2018-08-31.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series.
• Collected via an automated archiving process under the NOAA R2R program, suggesting standardized collection.

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 2018-08-31 00:00:00; freshness should be verified for current applications.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard the ship and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2018-08 21 to 2018-08-31

Freshness

Static dataset from a specific cruise; not updated.

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean