NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Meteorological and Navigational Data from October 2016

Raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series 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, the Gulf of Alaska, and the North Pacific Ocean from October 13 to 19, 2016. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and supplementary cruise-level metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling local weather patterns based on underway meteorological measurements.
• Analyzing ship navigation and track patterns based on logged navigational data.
• Studying temporal changes in ocean physical properties based on time series data.
• Correlating optical measurements with other environmental variables for water quality studies.

Strengths

• Data includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Collection process is automated under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program, suggesting standardized logging.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2016-10-19 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 Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson, submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2016-10 13 to 2016-10-19

Freshness

Last updated 2016-10-19 00:00:00.

Geography

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