NOAA NCEI Accession 0189886 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, which was collected in the Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska, British Columbia, the Columbia River estuary, and the North Pacific Ocean from May 13 to May 24, 2019. The dataset includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.
Use Cases
- Modeling coastal atmospheric conditions based on underway meteorological data.
- Analyzing ship navigation patterns and their correlation with physical oceanographic variables.
- Studying temporal changes in optical water properties in an estuary environment.
- Correlating time-series physical data with geographic location for spatial analysis.
Strengths
- Data includes multiple concurrent measurement types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) from a single research vessel.
- Covers a specific 12-day cruise from May 13 to May 24, 2019, providing a continuous time series.
- Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
- Data is archived through the established NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last updated 2019-05-24 00:00:00; freshness should be verified for current applications.
- Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA_NCEI, Office of Marine and Aviation Operations
- Collection Method
- Data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada and submitted by ship personnel.
- Time Range
- 2019-05-13 to 2019-05-24
- Freshness
- 2019-05-24 00:00:00
- Geography
- Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, Columbia River estuary - Washington/Oregon, North Pacific Ocean