NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter Underway Data from the North Atlantic Ocean, September 2019

NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data in the North Atlantic Ocean from 2019-09-08 to 2019-09-17. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log to the National Centers for Environmental Information via 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 navigation patterns and environmental conditions based on logged navigational and optical data.
• Studying short-term oceanographic profiles and time series for a specific cruise track.
• Validating satellite or model data against in-situ shipborne measurements from a known platform.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple measurement types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, time series) logged during a dedicated cruise.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data collection follows an automated archival process under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2019-09-17 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.

Time Range

2019-09 08 to 2019-09-17

Freshness

2019-09-17 00:00:00

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean