NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Meteorological and Oceanographic Data, 2015

NCEI Accession 0170543 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, and time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these data, collected in the Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska, British Columbia, and the North Pacific Ocean from September 27 to October 3, 2015. The data were archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling coastal weather patterns based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation and track data for operational research.
• Studying optical and physical oceanographic properties in the North Pacific.
• Validating time series data collection methods from scientific vessel systems.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple measurement types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Collected via an automated archiving process under the NOAA R2R program.

Limitations

• Last updated 2015-10-03 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2015-09 27 to 2015-10-03

Freshness

2015-10-03 00:00:00

Geography

Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia and North Pacific Ocean