NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Data from the Bering Sea, May 2016

The Bering Sea is the geographic scope for this dataset of raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data. It was logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard the NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson during a two-day cruise from May 3 to May 4, 2016. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information.

Use Cases

• Correlating meteorological conditions with oceanographic data based on the described multi-sensor logging.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns in relation to environmental variables based on the navigational data mentioned.
• Studying short-term time series of physical ocean properties in a specific region based on the two-day collection period.
• Validating automated data archiving processes for shipboard scientific systems based on the NOAA R2R program description.

Strengths

• Data originates from a NOAA research vessel, suggesting authoritative collection methods.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Covers a specific two-day period from 2016-05-03 to 2016-05 04, providing temporal precision.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2016-05-04 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2016-05-03 to 2016-05-04

Freshness

2016-05-04 00:00:00

Geography

Bering Sea