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

NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data in the Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia from 2020-02-02 to 2020-02-05. 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 accession includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Correlate atmospheric conditions with oceanographic variables based on the described meteorological and physical data.
• Analyze ship track and environmental conditions based on the navigational and time series data mentioned.
• Model coastal water properties in Southeast Alaska based on the optical and physical data collected.
• Validate automated data logging and archival processes for research vessels based on the NOAA R2R program description.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific four-day cruise in February 2020, providing a focused temporal snapshot.
• Includes multiple data streams (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) logged from a single platform.
• 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 2020-02-05; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count and file formats are 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

2020-02-02 to 2020-02-05

Freshness

Last updated 2020-02 05 00:00:00

Geography

Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia