NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Data from the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska, March 2018

NCEI Accession 0172347 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson. The data were collected in the Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, and North Pacific Ocean from March 12 to March 24, 2018, and submitted by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel. The dataset includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling regional weather patterns based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation and environmental conditions correlation based on navigational and physical data.
• Studying short-term oceanographic time series in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska.
• Validating satellite-derived ocean data with in-situ optical and physical observations.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 13-day cruise from March 12 to March 24, 2018.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical, logged by an automated Scientific Computer System.
• 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 2018-03-24; 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 NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2018-03 12 to 2018-03-24

Freshness

Last updated 2018-03-24 00:00:00

Geography

Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean