Underway biological, chemical, meteorological, navigational, optical, physical and time se

Arctic Ocean, Beaufort Sea, Bering Sea, and North Pacific Ocean data collected by NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson from 2020-08 14 to 2020-09-16. The dataset contains raw underway biological, chemical, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System. NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations submitted the data and supplementary cruise-level metadata via the Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling oceanographic conditions based on the described physical and chemical time series data.
• Analyzing biological activity patterns in Arctic waters based on the described biological data.
• Studying meteorological and navigational correlations based on the described multi-sensor underway data.
• Validating satellite or model data for the Arctic region based on the described in-situ measurements.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 34-day cruise in August–September 2020.
• Includes multiple data types: biological, chemical, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2020-09-16; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated archival via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program from shipboard Scientific Computer System logs.

Time Range

2020-08-14 to 2020-09-16

Freshness

Last updated 2020-09-16 00:00:00.

Geography

Arctic Ocean, Beaufort Sea, Bering Sea, Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean