NOAA Ship Meteorological and Oceanographic Data from Southeast Alaska, 2019

Raw underway data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada. The dataset includes meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data collected in the Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia and the North Pacific Ocean from June 13 to August 20, 2019. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log to the National Centers for Environmental Information via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling coastal meteorology based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns in relation to oceanographic conditions.
• Studying physical oceanographic profiles and time series for the North Pacific region.
• Integrating optical sensor data with environmental variables for water quality studies.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a specific 69-day cruise from June to August 2019.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Archived via an automated process under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2019-08-20; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the specific ship cruise.

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

2019-06 13 to 2019-08-20

Freshness

Last updated 2019-08-20 00:00:00

Geography

Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, North Pacific Ocean