NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Data from the Bering Sea and North Pacific, 2016

The Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, and North Pacific Ocean are the geographic scope for this raw underway dataset. It contains meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log for the period 2016 09 30 to 2016 10 07.

Use Cases

• Modeling ship-track atmospheric conditions based on meteorological data mentioned in the description
• Analyzing vessel navigation patterns based on logged navigational data
• Correlating optical and physical oceanographic measurements for time-series analysis
• Validating automated data archiving processes like the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program

Strengths

• Data spans a specific 8-day voyage from 2016-09-30 to 2016-10-07
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL)
• Archived via an automated process under the NOAA R2R program

Limitations

• Last updated 2016-10-07 00:00:00; freshness should be verified
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is 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

2016-09-30 to 2016-10-07

Freshness

2016-10 07

Geography

Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean