NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Data from SE Alaska, March 2016

NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the Coastal Waters of SE Alaska and North Pacific Ocean from 2016-03-16 to 2016-03-20. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, which was logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System and archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. The accession includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Modeling coastal atmospheric conditions based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation and track patterns based on logged navigational data.
• Studying oceanographic profiles and time series based on physical and optical measurements.
• Correlating ship operations with environmental data based on integrated cruise-level metadata.

Strengths

• Data spans a specific 5-day voyage from March 16-20, 2016.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series.
• Contains supplementary operational metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2016-03-20 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 aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2016-03 16 to 2016-03-20

Freshness

Last updated 2016-03-20 00:00:00.

Geography

Coastal Waters of SE Alaska and North Pacific Ocean