Oceanographic and Meteorological Data from NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson, May-June 2013

The Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, and North Pacific Ocean are the regions covered by this dataset. It contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged aboard the NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson from 2013-05-15 to 2013-06-01. The data and supplementary cruise-level metadata were submitted by NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations and archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling regional weather patterns based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation and ocean current interactions based on navigational data.
• Studying temporal changes in sea conditions based on physical and optical time series data.
• Correlating cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log with sensor readings.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 18-day cruise from May 15 to June 1, 2013.
• Includes multiple data streams: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Limitations

• Last updated 2013-06-01 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

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

Time Range

2013-05-15 to 2013-06-01

Freshness

2013-06-01 00:00:00

Geography

Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean