NOAA Ship Underway Meteorological and Oceanographic Data from SE Alaska, 2015

Raw underway data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada. The data includes meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series measurements collected in the Coastal Waters of SE Alaska and North Pacific Ocean from February 11 to March 3, 2015. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated cruise-level metadata to the National Oceanographic Data Center via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Analyzing meteorological conditions and air-sea interactions based on underway meteorological data.
• Studying oceanographic profiles and physical properties of coastal waters based on profile and physical data.
• Modeling ship navigation and its environmental context based on navigational data.
• Investigating optical properties of seawater based on optical data mentioned in the description.
• Conducting time series analysis of ocean conditions during a specific cruise period.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 21-day cruise from February 11 to March 3, 2015.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Limitations

• Last updated 2015-03-03 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated archival via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program from data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System.

Time Range

2015-02 11 to 2015-03-03

Freshness

Last updated 2015-03-03 00:00:00

Geography

Coastal Waters of SE Alaska and North Pacific Ocean