NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Data from the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska, March 2016

Raw underway data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson during a cruise in March 2016. The dataset includes meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data collected in the Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, and North Pacific Ocean. NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations submitted the data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Analyze marine meteorological conditions based on the described meteorological data.
• Study ship navigation and track patterns based on the navigational data.
• Model oceanographic physical properties based on the physical data time series.
• Correlate optical measurements with environmental conditions based on the optical data.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 17-day cruise from March 8 to March 24, 2016.
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) from a single source.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data was archived via an automated process under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2016-03-24; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• 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 the ship and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2016-03-08 to 2016-03-24

Freshness

Last updated 2016-03-24 00:00:00

Geography

Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean