NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Meteorological and Oceanographic Data, Bering Sea 2013

Raw underway data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson during a cruise in the Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, and North Pacific Ocean from August 15 to September 19, 2013. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to NODC under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. The accession includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Correlate meteorological conditions with oceanographic parameters based on the described raw underway data.
• Analyze ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions based on the logged navigational and time series data.
• Study optical and physical ocean properties in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska based on the cruise-level metadata.

Strengths

• Data collected over a defined 36-day cruise from 2013-08 15 to 2013-09-19.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, and time series.
• Processed through the automated NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2013-09-19 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

2013-08-15 to 2013-09-19

Freshness

Last updated 2013-09-19 00:00:00

Geography

Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean