NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Data from the Gulf of Alaska, 2014

NOAA NCEI Accession 0125086 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson. The data were collected in the Gulf of Alaska and North Pacific Ocean during a cruise from February 21 to March 1, 2014. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated metadata under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions based on navigational and physical data.
• Studying short-term marine phenomena in the Gulf of Alaska based on the time-series nature of the data.
• Calibrating satellite or model data with in-situ ship-based optical and physical measurements.

Strengths

• Data collection is tied to a specific NOAA research vessel and cruise, providing clear provenance.
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) logged as a time series.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Limitations

• Last updated 2014-03-01 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

Automated logging by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS) and submission by OMAO personnel under the NOAA R2R program.

Time Range

2014-02-21 to 2014-03-01

Freshness

Last updated 2014-03-01 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Alaska and North Pacific Ocean