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 collection of raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data. NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel logged this time series data aboard the NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson from June 11 to August 16, 2015. The data were archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Use Cases

• Modeling marine meteorological conditions based on the described underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns based on the navigational data logged by the Scientific Computer System.
• Studying optical properties of seawater based on the optical data mentioned in the description.
• Investigating physical oceanographic parameters based on the described physical data time series.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a specific two-month period from 2015-06-11 to 2015-08-16.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).
• Data were collected and submitted by NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2015-08-16 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI (National Centers for Environmental Information)

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2015-06-11 to 2015-08-16

Freshness

Last updated 2015-08-16 00:00:00.

Geography

Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean