NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Meteorological and Navigational Data, Gulf of Alaska 2017

The Gulf of Alaska and North Pacific Ocean are the geographic scope for this dataset of raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data. It was logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson from 2017-02-07 to 2017-02-16. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information.

Use Cases

• Modeling ship-based meteorological observations based on the described underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing vessel navigation patterns based on the described navigational data.
• Studying time-series physical oceanographic properties based on the described optical and physical data.
• Correlating environmental conditions with ship activities based on the supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a specific 10-day period from 2017-02-07 to 2017-02-16.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical, as described.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data was archived through an automated process under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Limitations

• Last updated 2017-02-16 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 aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2017-02-07 to 2017-02-16

Freshness

2017-02-16 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Alaska and North Pacific Ocean