NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Data from the Bering Sea and North Pacific, 2018

The Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, and North Pacific Ocean are the geographic scope for this collection of raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data. Data were logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson from June to September 2018. The dataset was submitted by NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations and archived by the National Centers for Environmental Information as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Correlating meteorological conditions with oceanographic variables based on the described underway data types.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns in relation to environmental conditions based on the navigational data mentioned.
• Studying temporal trends in physical oceanography parameters during the 2018 summer season in the Bering Sea.
• Validating regional climate models using in-situ time series data collected from a NOAA research vessel.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific summer cruise season from 2018-06-06 to 2018-09 01.
• Includes multiple data streams (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) logged from a single research platform.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data collection and archival process is automated under the NOAA R2R program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2018-09-01 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

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

2018-06-06 to 2018-09-01

Freshness

Last updated 2018-09-01 00:00:00.

Geography

Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean