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

2017-01-24 is the temporal coverage for raw underway data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson. The data includes meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series measurements collected in the coastal waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia. The data and supplementary cruise-level metadata were submitted by the NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations and archived by the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Correlate meteorological conditions with oceanographic readings based on the described underway data.
• Analyze ship navigation patterns in coastal waters based on the navigational data mentioned.
• Model short-term physical oceanographic processes based on the time series data collected over a single day.
• Validate automated data logging and archival processes like NOAA R2R based on the described collection method.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple measurement types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data collection follows a defined automated archival process under the NOAA R2R program.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Last updated 2017-01-24 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated logging by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS) and submission by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2017-01-24

Freshness

Single day of coverage on 2017-01-24.

Geography

Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia