NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Meteorological and Oceanographic Data from April 2013

From April 4 to April 15, 2013, raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data were collected aboard the NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson in the coastal waters of Southeast Alaska, the Gulf of Alaska, and the North Pacific Ocean. The data were logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS) and submitted to the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Use Cases

• Modeling local weather patterns based on the meteorological data mentioned in the description.
• Analyzing ship navigation and ocean currents based on the navigational data mentioned in the description.
• Studying ocean optical properties based on the optical data mentioned in the description.
• Correlating physical oceanographic variables over time based on the time series data mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a specific 12-day cruise from April 4 to 15, 2013.
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) logged from a single research vessel.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).

Limitations

• Last updated 2013-04-15 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated logging by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS) and submission via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Time Range

2013-04-04 to 2013-04-15

Freshness

Last updated 2013-04-15 00:00:00

Geography

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