NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Data from the Bering Sea, May 2014

From May 6 to May 17, 2014, raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data were logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson in the Bering Sea. The data and supplementary cruise-level metadata were 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 physical data
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns in the Bering Sea
• Correlating meteorological observations with optical measurements
• Studying short-term environmental time series for a specific cruise

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 12-day cruise with precise temporal bounds (2014-05 06 to 2014-05-17)
• Includes multiple data streams (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) logged from a single platform
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log

Limitations

• Last updated 2014-05-17 00:00:00; freshness should be verified
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard the ship and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2014-05-06 to 2014-05-17

Freshness

Data is from a single cruise in 2014; not updated.

Geography

Bering Sea