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

NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, and North Pacific Ocean during April 2016. The data were logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System and submitted to the National Centers for Environmental Information as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. This accession includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere heat exchange based on meteorological time series data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions in the Bering Sea.
• Correlating optical and physical oceanographic measurements for water column studies.
• Validating satellite-derived sea surface data with in-situ shipborne measurements.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a specific 28-day period from 2016-04-02 to 2016-04 29.
• Includes multiple data types: 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 2016-04-29 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• 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 NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2016-04-02 to 2016-04-29

Freshness

Last updated 2016-04-29 00:00:00.

Geography

Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean