The Bering Sea is the geographic scope for raw underway data logged aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson from June to August 2014. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. The dataset includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
Use Cases
- Modeling marine weather patterns based on underway meteorological data.
- Analyzing ship navigation and track patterns based on logged navigational data.
- Studying ocean optical properties based on the optical data mentioned.
- Investigating physical oceanographic time series for the 2014 summer period.
Strengths
- Data spans a specific two-month summer cruise from 2014-06-12 to 2014-08 14.
- Includes multiple data streams: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
- Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
Limitations
- Last updated 2014-08-14 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
- 2014-06-12 to 2014 08-14
- Freshness
- Last updated 2014-08-14 00:00:00
- Geography
- Bering Sea