NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Data from the Gulf of Alaska, March 2019

NCEI Accession 0162329 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, and time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada. The data were collected in the Gulf of Alaska and North Pacific Ocean from March 6 to March 30, 2019, and submitted by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel. The dataset also includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions based on navigational and physical data.
• Studying temporal variability in oceanographic parameters based on the described time series data.
• Correlating optical measurements with physical oceanographic conditions in the Gulf of Alaska.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a 25-day continuous period from March 6 to March 30, 2019.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, and time series.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data archived via an established automated process under the NOAA R2R program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2019-03-30 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2019-03-06 to 2019-03-30

Freshness

Last updated 2019-03-30 00:00:00

Geography

Gulf of Alaska and North Pacific Ocean