NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter Underway Data from the North Atlantic Ocean, 2013

NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter collected raw underway profile, meteorological, optical, trawl, time series, navigational and physical data in the North Atlantic Ocean from July to November 2013. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to NODC via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. The accession also includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Analyze meteorological patterns at sea based on the meteorological data mentioned in the description
• Study marine biological populations based on the trawl data mentioned in the description
• Model oceanographic profiles based on the underway physical data mentioned in the description
• Correlate navigational paths with environmental measurements based on the navigational and time series data mentioned in the description

Strengths

• Data collection spans a specific 4-month period from 2013-07-19 to 2013-11-25
• Data originates from a NOAA research vessel and was submitted under the NOAA R2R program
• Includes multiple data types such as meteorological, optical, trawl, and navigational data

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Last updated 2013-11-25 00:00:00; freshness should be verified
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter and submitted via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Time Range

2013-07-19 to 2013-11-25

Freshness

Last updated 2013-11-25 00:00:00

Geography

North Atlantic Ocean