NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Data from the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska, 2015

The Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, and North Pacific Ocean are the geographic scope for this raw underway dataset collected aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson from April 24 to May 10, 2015. It contains meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS). 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 (R2R) program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions based on navigational and optical data.
• Studying short-term physical oceanographic variability based on time series physical data.
• Validating satellite or model data against in-situ shipborne observations.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 17-day cruise from April 24 to May 10, 2015.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).
• Data was archived via an automated process under the NOAA R2R program, suggesting a standardized pipeline.

Limitations

• Last updated 2015-05-10 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 (National Centers for Environmental Information), via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2015-04-24 to 2015-05-10

Freshness

Data is from a single cruise in 2015; not updated.

Geography

Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean