NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Data from Southeast Alaska, January 2017

NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the coastal waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia over a two-day period in January 2017. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, which was logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System and archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. The dataset includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Modeling coastal atmospheric conditions based on meteorological time series data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental interactions based on navigational logs.
• Studying short-term physical oceanographic variability in a coastal region.
• Correlating optical sensor readings with other physical measurements from the underway system.

Strengths

• Data originates from a NOAA research vessel, suggesting institutional credibility.
• Includes multiple data streams (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) for a single cruise.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Last updated 2017-01-24 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI, collected by personnel aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson.

Collection Method

Automated logging by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS), submitted via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Time Range

2017-01-23 to 2017-01 24

Freshness

Data is from a specific two-day period in January 2017.

Geography

Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia