NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Data from the Bering Sea and North Pacific, 2015
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Description
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 October 2 to 6, 2015. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these time series data and supplementary cruise-level metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The data were archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository automated process.
Use Cases
Modeling marine weather patterns based on underway meteorological data.
Analyzing ship navigation and track data for operational research.
Studying ocean optical properties based on the described optical measurements.
Correlating physical oceanographic observations with time and location series.
Strengths
Data includes multiple measurement types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
Collected over a defined 5-day period from 2015-10-02 to 2015-10 06.
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.