This data is in support of the WRR paper by Fries and Kerkez: Big Ship Data: Using Vessel Measurements to Improve Estimates of Temperature and Wind Speed on the Great Lakes
Code is also provided
Fries, K., and B. Kerkez (2017), Big Ship Data: Using vessel measurements to improve estimates of temperature and wind speed on the Great Lakes, Water Resour. Res., 53, 3662–3679, http://doi.org/10.1002/2016WR020084.