Raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson. The data was collected in the Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, and North Pacific Ocean from May 11 to June 2, 2017. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information.
Use Cases
- Correlating meteorological conditions with oceanographic phenomena based on the described underway physical data.
- Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions based on the logged navigational and meteorological data.
- Studying time-series trends in optical and physical ocean properties for a specific cruise period.
- Validating or supplementing regional climate models with in-situ ship-collected data from the described geographic area.
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 23-day period from May 11 to June 2, 2017.
- Archived through 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 2017-06-02 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 aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson and submitted by OMAO personnel.
- Time Range
- 2017-05-11 to 2017-06-02
- Freshness
- Last updated 2017-06-02 00:00:00
- Geography
- Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean