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

Raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) 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 Centers for Environmental Information. The data was collected in the Bering Sea from September 24 to October 1, 2016, as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Correlating meteorological conditions with physical oceanographic measurements based on the described multi-sensor data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and their relationship to environmental sampling based on the navigational and time series data.
• Validating automated data logging and archival processes for research vessels based on the NOAA R2R program metadata.

Strengths

• Data collection is tied to a specific NOAA research vessel and cruise, providing clear provenance.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, which may offer operational context.
• Data was collected over a continuous 8-day period in a defined geographic area (the Bering Sea).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2016-10-01; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS) and submitted by OMAO personnel via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Time Range

2016-09 24 to 2016-10-01

Freshness

Last updated 2016-10-01 00:00:00

Geography

Bering Sea