NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Data from SE Alaska and North Pacific Ocean, 2016

NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the Coastal Waters of SE Alaska and North Pacific Ocean. The data were logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System and submitted by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel between February 21 and March 11, 2016. This 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 coastal meteorology based on the described underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns based on the navigational data logged by the Scientific Computer System.
• Studying ocean optical properties based on the optical data mentioned in the description.
• Correlating physical oceanographic variables with time series data collected during the cruise.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple measurement types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data collection spans a specific 19-day period from 2016-02-21 to 2016-03-11.
• Archived through an automated process under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2016-03-11 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI, Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO).

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2016-02-21 to 2016-03-11.

Freshness

Last updated 2016-03-11 00:00:00.

Geography

Coastal Waters of SE Alaska and North Pacific Ocean.