NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Data from Southeast Alaska and North Pacific, June 2018

NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia and the North Pacific Ocean from June 17 to June 23, 2018. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log to the National Centers for Environmental Information via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions from logged navigational and time series data.
• Studying coastal water properties and optical characteristics from the described optical measurements.
• Validating regional climate or oceanographic models with in-situ time series data from a specific cruise.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple measurement types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Collected over a defined 7-day period from 2018-06-17 to 2018-06 23.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2018-06-23 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• 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

2018-06-17 to 2018-06-23

Freshness

Last updated 2018-06-23 00:00:00.

Geography

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