NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Data from SE Alaska, 2016

Raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson. The data was collected in the Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska from January 30 to February 1, 2016. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and supplementary cruise-level metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling coastal atmospheric conditions based on the described meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns in SE Alaska based on the navigational data.
• Studying short-term physical oceanographic variability based on the time series and optical data.
• Validating automated data logging and archival processes like the NOAA R2R program.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple concurrent measurement types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Collected via an automated process under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository 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 2016-02-01 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2016-01 30 to 2016-02-01

Freshness

Last updated 2016-02-01 00:00:00

Geography

Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska