NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Meteorological and Oceanographic Data, January 2015

Raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson. The data was collected in the Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska, the Gulf of Alaska, and the North Pacific Ocean from January 24 to January 30, 2015. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to the National Oceanographic Data Center under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Analyze meteorological conditions and trends based on the described underway meteorological data.
• Study oceanographic physical properties based on the described physical data.
• Correlate ship navigation with environmental observations based on the described navigational data.
• Model coastal and open-ocean processes in the North Pacific based on the described time series data from the specified region.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple measurement types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Collected over a defined 7-day period from 2015-01-24 to 2015-01-30.
• Archived via an automated process under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Limitations

• Last updated 2015-01-30 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

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

Time Range

2015-01-24 to 2015-01-30

Freshness

Data collection ended on 2015-01-30.

Geography

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