NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Data from Alaska and North Pacific, February 2016

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 SE Alaska, Gulf of Alaska, and North Pacific Ocean from February 3 to February 9, 2016. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information.

Use Cases

• Modeling regional weather patterns based on meteorological time series data.
• Analyzing ship navigation and oceanographic conditions based on navigational and physical data.
• Correlating optical measurements with physical oceanographic properties.
• Studying short-term environmental variability in Alaskan coastal waters based on the time series nature of the data.

Strengths

• Data collection is temporally precise, covering a specific 7-day period from 2016-02-03 to 2016-02-09.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data was archived through an automated process under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Limitations

• Last updated 2016 02 09 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

2016-02-03 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