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

From 2015-09 16 to 2015-10-13, 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 Southeast Alaska, British Columbia, and the North Pacific Ocean. The data were submitted by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) personnel and archived by NCEI under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Use Cases

• Modeling coastal oceanographic conditions based on underway physical profile data.
• Analyzing ship-track meteorological patterns based on logged time series data.
• Correlating optical measurements with navigational data for environmental monitoring.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a 28-day period in September-October 2015.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series.
• Cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL) is included.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2015-10-13 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2015-09-16 to 2015-10-13

Freshness

Last updated 2015-10-13 00:00:00

Geography

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