NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Meteorological and Oceanographic Data, Jan-Feb 2016

From 2016-01-30 to 2016-02 09, raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data were collected aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson in the Coastal Waters of SE Alaska, Gulf of Alaska, and North Pacific Ocean. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) personnel submitted the data, which was logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS) and archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program. The dataset also includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation and environmental conditions for maritime studies based on navigational and physical data.
• Studying temporal patterns in coastal waters based on the described time series data.
• Correlating optical measurements with other physical oceanographic variables.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 11-day cruise in January-February 2016.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical, as described.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2016-02-09 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI, collected by OMAO personnel aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson.

Collection Method

Data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS) and archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Time Range

2016-01-30 to 2016-02-09

Freshness

Last updated 2016-02-09 00:00:00.

Geography

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