NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Data from the Bering Sea, 2015

NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, and North Pacific Ocean from 2015-09-23 to 2015-10 06. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and supplementary cruise-level metadata to the National Oceanographic Data Center. The data were archived through the automated NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling sea surface conditions based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns in relation to oceanographic sampling.
• Studying optical properties of seawater in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska.
• Correlating time-series physical measurements with meteorological observations.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 14-day cruise from September to October 2015.
• Includes multiple data streams: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• 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 2015-10-06 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2015-09-23 to 2015-10-06

Freshness

Last updated 2015-10-06 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean