Underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical and time series data collected ab

NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data in the Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, and North Pacific Ocean from 2013-06-08 to 2013-08 09. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to the National Oceanographic Data Center. The data were archived through an automated process under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling marine weather patterns based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation and environmental conditions based on navigational and physical data.
• Studying ocean optical properties based on optical sensor data mentioned in the description.
• Correlating atmospheric and oceanic time series for climate research.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a specific two-month period from June to August 2013.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Limitations

• Last updated 2013-08-09 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 aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2013-06-08 to 2013-08-09

Freshness

Last updated 2013-08-09 00:00:00

Geography

Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean