NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Meteorological and Oceanographic Data, March 2014

Raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged aboard the NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson. The data was collected in the Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, and North Pacific Ocean from March 13 to March 25, 2014, and submitted to the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel. The archive includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log and was processed under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling regional weather patterns based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation and environmental conditions based on logged navigational and physical data.
• Studying temporal changes in oceanographic parameters based on the time series nature of the data.
• Correlating optical measurements with other physical observations from the cruise.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 13-day cruise from March 13 to March 25, 2014.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Archived through an automated process under the NOAA R2R program.

Limitations

• Last updated 2014-03-25 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 NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2014-03 13 to 2014-03-25

Freshness

Data is from a discrete collection period in March 2014.

Geography

Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean