NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Oceanographic Data from the Bering Sea, 2020

NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson collected raw underway biological, chemical, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data in the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean from September 17 to October 5, 2020. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, which was archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) automated program. The accession includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Modeling oceanographic conditions based on underway physical and chemical measurements.
• Analyzing marine ecosystem dynamics based on biological and optical data.
• Studying ship-track meteorological patterns based on logged weather data.
• Correlating biological observations with navigational and temporal coordinates.

Strengths

• Data spans multiple domains: biological, chemical, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Covers a specific 19-day cruise from 2020-09-17 to 2020-10 05.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Collected via an automated archiving process under the NOAA R2R program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2020-10-05 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2020-09-17 to 2020-10-05

Freshness

Last updated 2020-10-05 00:00:00.

Geography

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