NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Meteorological and Oceanographic Data, 2019

NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data in the Gulf of Alaska and North Pacific Ocean from 2019-09-30 to 2019-10-02. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log to NCEI. The data were archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) automated process.

Use Cases

• Modeling local weather patterns based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation and track data for route optimization studies.
• Correlating in-situ optical and physical measurements with remote sensing data.
• Studying short-term oceanic processes using high-frequency time series data.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple sensor streams (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) for integrated analysis.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).
• Collected via an automated archiving process under the NOAA R2R program, suggesting standardized collection.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2019-10-02; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• 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 (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2019-09 30 to 2019-10-02

Freshness

Last updated 2019-10-02 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Alaska and North Pacific Ocean