NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Meteorological and Oceanographic Data from Alaska, 2017

Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, the Gulf of Alaska, and the North Pacific Ocean are the geographic scope for this raw underway dataset. It contains meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson from January 26 to February 1, 2017. The data and supplementary cruise-level metadata were submitted by NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations and archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Analyzing short-term meteorological trends in the Gulf of Alaska based on the raw underway meteorological data.
• Studying ship navigation patterns in coastal waters based on the navigational data logs.
• Correlating optical and physical oceanographic measurements for a specific cruise period.
• Validating or calibrating other environmental models using high-frequency, ship-collected time series data.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 7-day cruise from 2017-01-26 to 2017-02-01, providing a focused temporal snapshot.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical, as stated in the description.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2017-02-01; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated archival via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program from data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System.

Time Range

2017-01-26 to 2017-02-01

Freshness

Last updated 2017-02-01 00:00:00

Geography

Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean