NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Oceanographic Data from the Bering Sea, May 2021

NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson collected raw underway biological, chemical, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, and North Pacific Ocean from 2021-05-01 to 2021-05-10. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The data were archived through an automated process under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling oceanographic conditions based on the described physical and chemical data.
• Analyzing biological activity patterns based on the described biological data.
• Correlating meteorological and navigational data for ship-track environmental studies.
• Validating satellite-derived ocean data using in-situ optical measurements mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Data covers multiple oceanographic domains (biological, chemical, meteorological, optical, physical) for a single cruise.
• 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 2021-05-10 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

2021-05-01 to 2021-05-10

Freshness

Last updated 2021-05-10 00:00:00

Geography

Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean