NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Meteorological and Oceanographic Data, February 2019

From February 13 to March 1, 2019, this dataset contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged aboard the NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada. The data was collected in the Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, the Gulf of Alaska, and the North Pacific Ocean. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling regional weather patterns based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation and environmental conditions based on navigational and physical data.
• Studying coastal oceanographic processes based on time series data from specific voyages.
• Developing automated data ingestion workflows based on the NOAA R2R program structure.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 17-day voyage from February 13 to March 1, 2019.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data is archived via the established NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository automated process.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2019-03-01 00:00:00; freshness should be verified for current applications.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated logging by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS) and submission via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Time Range

2019-02 13 to 2019-03-01

Freshness

2019-03-01 00:00:00

Geography

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