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

NCEI Accession 0165029 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged aboard the NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these data, collected in the Bering Sea from May 4 to May 14, 2016, as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling local meteorological conditions based on underway weather data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and routes in the Bering Sea.
• Studying time-series changes in physical oceanographic properties.
• Calibrating optical sensor data from marine research platforms.

Strengths

• Data collected over a specific 11-day cruise in May 2016.
• Includes multiple data streams: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log is included.

Limitations

• Last updated 2016-05-14 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

Automated logging by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS) and submission via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Time Range

2016-05-04 to 2016-05-14

Freshness

2016-05-14 00:00:00

Geography

Bering Sea