NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter Underway Data from the Gulf of Mexico, August-September 2014

NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, time series, and trawl data in the Gulf of Mexico from 2014-08-21 to 2014-09-30. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, logged by the Scientific Computer System and the Ship Daily Activity Log, to the National Oceanographic Data Center. The data were archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing marine biological sampling based on trawl data mentioned in the description.
• Studying temporal patterns in the Gulf of Mexico based on time series and profile data.
• Correlating ship navigation with environmental measurements based on navigational and optical data.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a focused 41-day cruise in the Gulf of Mexico.
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, time series, trawl) from a single source.
• Data and metadata were submitted through an established NOAA program (R2R).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2014-09-30; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Centers for Environmental Information)

Collection Method

Automated logging by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter, with supplementary metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Time Range

2014-08 21 to 2014-09-30

Freshness

Last updated 2014-09-30 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Mexico