NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Data from Southeast Alaska, January 2018

NOAA NCEI Accession 0171090 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson. The data was collected in the Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia over a three-day period from January 26 to 28, 2018. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated cruise-level metadata as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling coastal meteorological conditions based on the described underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns in coastal waters based on the navigational data.
• Studying short-term physical oceanographic time series based on the described physical and optical data.
• Validating automated data logging processes for ship-based scientific systems.

Strengths

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

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2018-01-28 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2018-01 26 to 2018-01-28

Freshness

Last updated 2018-01-28 00:00:00.

Geography

Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia