NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Data from the Gulf of Alaska, March 2020

NCEI Accession 0209365 contains raw underway biological, chemical, meteorological, navigational, optical, physical and time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log. The data were collected in the Gulf of Alaska from March 3 to March 16, 2020, and archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling oceanographic conditions based on described physical and chemical data.
• Analyzing biological activity patterns based on described biological data.
• Correlating meteorological and navigational data for ship-track environmental studies.
• Conducting time-series analysis of multi-parameter ocean data.

Strengths

• Data covers multiple domains including biological, chemical, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical measurements.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data collection occurred over a defined two-week period from 2020-03-03 to 2020-03-16.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2020-03-16 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

2020-03-03 to 2020-03-16

Freshness

Last updated 2020-03-16 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Alaska