NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Data from the Bering Sea, 2019

From September 19 to October 1, 2019, raw underway data was collected aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson in the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean. The dataset contains meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS). It was submitted by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel and archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling sea surface conditions based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship track patterns based on navigational data.
• Studying optical properties of subarctic waters based on optical data.
• Correlating physical oceanographic variables with time-series data.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 13-day cruise in the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Collected via an 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 2019-10-01 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated logging by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS) and manual entries in the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Time Range

2019-09-19 to 2019-10-01

Freshness

Last updated 2019-10-01 00:00:00

Geography

Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean