NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Data from the Gulf of Alaska, 2013

The Gulf of Alaska and North Pacific Ocean are the geographic scope for this raw underway dataset collected aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson from February 8 to March 5, 2013. It contains meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System. NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations submitted the data and associated cruise-level metadata as part of the Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Correlating meteorological conditions with oceanographic parameters based on the described underway data streams.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns in relation to environmental measurements based on the logged navigational data.
• Studying short-term temporal variability in the Gulf of Alaska based on the time series nature of the data.
• Validating regional climate or weather models based on in-situ ship-collected physical and optical data.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 26-day cruise from 2013-02-08 to 2013-03-05, providing a focused temporal snapshot.
• Includes multiple data streams (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) from a single research 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 2013 03 05 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is 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 via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Time Range

2013-02-08 to 2013-03-05

Freshness

Last updated 2013-03-05 00:00:00.

Geography

Gulf of Alaska and North Pacific Ocean