NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Data from the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska, 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 30 to April 24, 2018. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The automated archiving process was developed under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling regional weather patterns based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation and track patterns in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska.
• Studying optical water properties for ocean color research.
• Investigating physical oceanographic time series for climate variability studies.
• Validating automated data collection and archival processes for scientific cruises.

Strengths

• Data spans a specific 26-day cruise from March 30 to April 24, 2018.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Archived via an established automated process under the NOAA R2R program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2018-04-24; 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

2018-03-30 to 2018-04-24

Freshness

Last updated 2018-04-24 00:00:00

Geography

Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean