NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Data from the Bering Sea, May-June 2018

NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the Bering Sea from 2018-05-13 to 2018-06-01. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these Scientific Computer System logs and cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The data were archived through the automated NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling sea surface conditions based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental correlations.
• Studying optical properties of seawater in the Bering Sea region.
• Creating time-series analyses of physical oceanographic variables.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a continuous 20-day period from May 13 to June 1, 2018.
• Includes multiple data streams: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log provides supplementary context.
• Data archived through the established NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2018-06-01 00:00:00; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Raw data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2018-05-13 to 2018-06-01

Freshness

Last updated 2018-06-01 00:00:00

Geography

Bering Sea