2017-01 20 data collected aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson in the Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia. The dataset contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS). It was submitted by NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) and archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.
Use Cases
- Analyze coastal meteorological conditions based on the underway meteorological data mentioned in the description.
- Study ship navigation patterns in coastal waters based on the navigational data.
- Correlate optical and physical oceanographic measurements based on the time series data.
- Validate automated data logging and archival processes for research vessels based on the NOAA R2R program metadata.
Strengths
- Data includes multiple concurrent measurement types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
- Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).
- Data collection and archival are part of the structured NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.
Limitations
- Last updated 2017-01-20 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
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
- 2017-01-20
- Freshness
- 2017-01-20 00:00:00
- Geography
- Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia