Underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical and time series data collected ab

NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, and North Pacific Ocean during a one-month cruise from August to September 2019. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these time series data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The accession also includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling sea surface conditions based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and routes in the North Pacific.
• Studying optical water properties for remote sensing validation.
• Correlating physical oceanographic measurements with atmospheric observations.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific one-month time range from 2019-08-13 to 2019-09 12.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical measurements.
• 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 2019-09-12 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 Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2019-08-13 to 2019-09-12

Freshness

Last updated 2019-09-12 00:00:00

Geography

Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean