Underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical and time series data collected ab

Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia are the region for raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data collected aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson. The data were logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS) and submitted by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel over a three-day period from January 25 to 27, 2016. The dataset was archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Use Cases

• Model coastal weather patterns based on the meteorological data mentioned in the description
• Analyze ship navigation and track data based on the navigational logs mentioned in the description
• Study short-term oceanographic variability based on the physical and optical time series data mentioned in the description
• Validate automated data logging processes for research vessels based on the Scientific Computer System (SCS) metadata

Strengths

• Data includes multiple sensor types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) for integrated analysis
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL)
• Data collection follows a defined NOAA program (Rolling Deck to Repository - R2R)

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Last updated 2016-01-27 00:00:00; freshness should be verified
• 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), submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2016-01-25 to 2016-01-27

Freshness

Last updated 2016-01-27 00:00:00

Geography

Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia