NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Oceanographic and Meteorological Data, Summer 2014

From June 24 to September 14, 2014, raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data were logged aboard the NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada in the Coastal Waters of SE Alaska and the North Pacific Ocean. The data were submitted by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel and archived by NODC under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Use Cases

• Modeling coastal oceanographic conditions based on the described physical and profile data.
• Analyzing meteorological trends over the North Pacific Ocean based on the described underway meteorological data.
• Studying ship-track time series for navigation and environmental correlation based on the described navigational and time series data.
• Investigating optical properties of coastal waters based on the described optical data.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a specific 83-day period from 2014-06-24 to 2014-09-14.
• Includes multiple data types as described: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2014-09-14 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 the ship and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2014-06 24 to 2014-09-14

Freshness

Last updated 2014-09-14 00:00:00.

Geography

Coastal Waters of SE Alaska and North Pacific Ocean