NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Data from the Gulf of Alaska, March 2017

March 14-27, 2017, raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson in the Gulf of Alaska. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to NCEI as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Use Cases

• Modeling marine weather patterns based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation and track data for oceanographic research vessel operations.
• Studying optical and physical ocean properties in the Gulf of Alaska based on the described sensor data.
• Correlating atmospheric and oceanic time series data for climate studies.

Strengths

• Data spans a specific two-week period (2017-03 14 to 2017-03-27) in a defined region (Gulf of Alaska).
• Includes 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 2017-03-27 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• 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

2017-03-14 to 2017-03-27

Freshness

Last updated 2017-03-27 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Alaska