NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Oceanographic Data, March 2020

Raw underway data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson in the North Pacific Ocean from March 23 to March 26, 2020. The dataset includes biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data submitted by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel. It was archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing marine biological activity patterns based on biological sensor data.
• Studying ship navigation and its environmental context based on navigational and optical data.
• Conducting time series analysis of integrated oceanographic variables.

Strengths

• Integrated data collection covering biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical variables.
• Data collected over a defined 4-day period from March 23 to March 26, 2020.
• Archived through an established automated 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 2020-03-26 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2020-03-23 to 2020-03-26

Freshness

Last updated 2020-03-26 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean