NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Data from the Gulf of Alaska, February 2018

NCEI Accession 0171091 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson. The data was collected in the Gulf of Alaska and North Pacific Ocean from 2018-02-05 to 2018-02-15 and submitted by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel. It includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Correlating meteorological conditions with oceanographic variables based on the described underway data streams.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental sensor readings for operational research.
• Modeling time-series relationships between physical ocean properties and optical measurements.
• Validating automated data logging and archival processes for scientific vessel operations.

Strengths

• Data spans a specific 11-day period from 2018-02-05 to 2018-02-15, providing a focused temporal snapshot.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical, suggesting potential for multivariate analysis.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, which may provide operational context.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2018-02-15 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2018-02-05 to 2018-02-15

Freshness

Last updated 2018-02-15 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Alaska and North Pacific Ocean