From May 14 to June 5, 2015, raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data were collected aboard the NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson in the Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, and North Pacific Ocean. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel logged the data via the ship's Scientific Computer System and submitted it to the National Oceanographic Data Center. The dataset also includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.
Use Cases
- Correlating meteorological conditions with oceanographic phenomena based on the described underway data.
- Analyzing ship navigation patterns and routes in the specified regions based on navigational logs.
- Studying time-series trends in physical oceanographic parameters collected during the cruise.
- Validating or supplementing regional climate models with in-situ ship-based observations.
Strengths
- Data covers a specific 23-day cruise from May 14 to June 5, 2015.
- Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical, as described.
- Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last updated 2015-06-05 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
- 2015-05 14 to 2015-06-05
- Freshness
- Last updated 2015-06-05 00:00:00.
- Geography
- Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean