NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Data from the Gulf of Alaska, 2015

From February 9 to March 3, 2015, raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data were logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson in the Gulf of Alaska and North Pacific Ocean. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to NODC under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Analyzing meteorological trends based on underway weather data.
• Studying ship navigation patterns based on logged navigational data.
• Correlating optical and physical oceanographic measurements over time.
• Validating ship-collected time series data for model inputs.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a specific 23-day cruise in 2015.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Archived via an automated process under the NOAA R2R program.

Limitations

• Last updated 2015-03-03 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard the ship and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2015-02-09 to 2015-03-03

Freshness

Last updated 2015-03-03 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Alaska and North Pacific Ocean