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

Raw underway data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson during a cruise in early 2013. The dataset contains meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data collected in the coastal waters of Southeast Alaska, the Gulf of Alaska, and the North Pacific Ocean. NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations submitted the data and associated cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log to the National Oceanographic Data Center.

Use Cases

• Modeling local weather patterns based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation and track data for oceanographic research planning.
• Studying optical and physical ocean properties from time series measurements.
• Integrating cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log for contextual analysis.

Strengths

• Data collection spans multiple domains: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).
• Data was archived through an automated process under the NOAA R2R program, suggesting structured ingestion.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2013-02-03; 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

2013-01 28 to 2013-02-03

Freshness

Last updated 2013-02-03 00:00:00

Geography

Coastal Waters of SE Alaska, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean