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

NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson collected raw underway biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, and North Pacific Ocean from February 18 to 28, 2020. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these 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 marine ecosystem dynamics based on biological and physical data streams.
• Analyzing meteorological and oceanographic conditions along a ship's track.
• Correlating navigational data with optical or physical sensor readings for spatiotemporal studies.
• Validating satellite or model data with in-situ underway time series measurements.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple concurrent measurement types (biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, physical).
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Covers a specific 11-day voyage in February 2020 across three distinct marine regions.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2020-02-28 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

2020-02 18 to 2020-02-28

Freshness

Last updated 2020-02-28 00:00:00.

Geography

Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean