NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson collected raw underway biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the North Pacific Ocean from August 11 to 13, 2020. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these data and supplementary cruise-level metadata 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
- Correlating meteorological conditions with biological activity based on the described meteorological and biological data streams.
- Analyzing short-term oceanographic variability based on the physical and optical time series data collected over three days.
- Studying ship-based navigation and environmental sampling patterns based on the navigational data and logged cruise metadata.
Strengths
- Data integrates multiple environmental domains (biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) from a single research vessel.
- Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
- Data collection follows a documented automated archiving process under the NOAA R2R program.
Limitations
- Data collection occurred over a very short time range (3 days in August 2020).
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
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
- 2020-08-11 to 2020-08-13
- Freshness
- Last updated 2020-08-13 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- North Pacific Ocean