NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Data from the Bering Sea and North Pacific, 2019

From May 30 to August 7, 2019, raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data were logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson. The data were collected in the Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, and North Pacific Ocean and submitted to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel. Supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log is also included, archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling sea surface temperature and air-sea heat flux based on physical and meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation and track patterns based on logged navigational data.
• Studying optical properties of seawater (e.g., light attenuation) based on optical sensor data.
• Correlating meteorological events with oceanographic conditions during the cruise based on time-series data.
• Validating automated data submission workflows for research vessels based on the described R2R program process.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 70-day cruise from May to August 2019.
• Includes multiple data streams: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data collection follows a documented automated process under the NOAA R2R program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2019-08-07 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 ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS) and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2019-05 30 to 2019-08-07

Freshness

Last updated 2019-08-07 00:00:00

Geography

Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean