NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Meteorological and Oceanographic Data, March 2018

NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, and North Pacific Ocean from March 1 to March 8, 2018. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted this data and supplementary cruise-level metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The data were archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository automated program.

Use Cases

• Modeling marine weather patterns based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation and operational routes based on logged navigational data.
• Studying oceanographic time series based on physical and optical measurements.
• Validating automated data logging processes for scientific vessel systems.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 8-day cruise from March 1-8, 2018.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Archived through a formal NOAA program (Rolling Deck to Repository).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2018-03-08 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

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

2018-03-01 to 2018-03-08

Freshness

Last updated 2018-03-08 00:00:00

Geography

Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean