Underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical and time series data collected ab

Raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson. The data was collected in the Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, and North Pacific Ocean from March 2 to March 9, 2016. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling marine weather conditions based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and ocean currents based on navigational data.
• Studying optical and physical oceanographic properties in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska.
• Creating time series analyses of environmental variables during a specific cruise.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple environmental domains: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data collection spans a defined 8-day period from 2016-03-02 to 2016-03 09.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2016-03-09 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated archival via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program from shipboard Scientific Computer System logs.

Time Range

2016-03-02 to 2016-03-09

Freshness

Last updated 2016-03-09 00:00:00

Geography

Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean