NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Data from SE Alaska and North Pacific Ocean, 2015

Coastal Waters of SE Alaska and the North Pacific Ocean are the geographic scope for this collection of underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data. The data were logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada during a cruise from June 20 to September 10, 2015. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and metadata to NODC as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Analyzing meteorological conditions at sea based on the described underway meteorological data.
• Studying ship navigation and track patterns based on the navigational data mentioned.
• Modeling oceanographic profiles based on the physical and profile data collected.
• Conducting time series analysis of ocean conditions based on the logged time series data.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a specific 83-day period from 2015-06-20 to 2015 09-10.
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, time series) logged from a single research vessel.
• Cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log is included.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2015-09-10 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count and file formats are 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

2015-06-20 to 2015-09-10

Freshness

Last updated 2015-09-10 00:00:00.

Geography

Coastal Waters of SE Alaska and North Pacific Ocean