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

The Bering Sea is the geographic scope for this collection of raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log to the National Oceanographic Data Center. Data collection occurred from May 20 to June 8, 2014, as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling marine weather patterns based on the meteorological data mentioned in the description
• Analyzing ship navigation and track data based on the navigational logs
• Studying oceanographic time series based on the physical and optical data
• Correlating cruise-level events with sensor readings based on the Ship Daily Activity Log metadata

Strengths

• Data includes multiple sensor types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) for integrated analysis
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log
• Collected via an automated archiving process under the NOAA R2R program

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Last updated 2014-06-08 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

2014-05 20 to 2014-06-08

Freshness

Last updated 2014-06-08 00:00:00

Geography

Bering Sea