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

NCEI Accession 0165031 contains 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 these data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log. The data were collected in the Bering Sea from June 12 to August 17, 2016, and archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling marine weather patterns based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation and track data for operational research.
• Studying optical and physical ocean properties from time-series measurements.
• Correlating cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log with sensor readings.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a specific 66-day period from 2016-06-12 to 2016-08-17.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data were archived via the established NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2016-08-17 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2016-06-12 to 2016-08-17

Freshness

Last updated 2016-08 17 00:00:00.

Geography

Bering Sea