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

NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the Gulf of Alaska from 2015 -03-14 to 2015-03-31. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System to the National Oceanographic Data Center. The accession also includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere heat and gas exchange based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions in the Gulf of Alaska based on navigational and optical data.
• Studying short-term oceanic and atmospheric time series for a specific cruise track in March 2015.
• Validating satellite-derived oceanographic measurements with in-situ physical and optical data collected from a research vessel.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 18-day period from March 14 to March 31, 2015.
• Includes multiple data streams: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical, logged by an onboard Scientific Computer System.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2015-03-31 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated archival via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program from data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System.

Time Range

2015-03-14 to 2015-03 31

Freshness

Last updated 2015-03-31 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Alaska