NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Meteorological and Oceanographic Data from 2013

From September 24 to November 3, 2013, raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data were collected aboard 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. Supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log is also included, archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Use Cases

• Modeling atmospheric conditions at sea based on the described meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and ocean currents based on the navigational data.
• Studying temporal changes in oceanographic properties based on the physical time series data.
• Correlating optical measurements with other environmental variables for water quality studies.
• Validating satellite-derived oceanographic data using in-situ ship-based measurements.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a specific 41-day period from 2013-09-24 to 2013-11 03.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).
• Data originates from a NOAA research vessel and is archived via the authoritative NOAA R2R program.

Limitations

• Last updated 2013-11-03 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• 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

2013-09-24 to 2013-11-03

Freshness

Last updated 2013-11-03 00:00:00

Geography

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