Underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile and time series data col

NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia and the North Pacific Ocean from 2018-08-19 to 2018-09 14. 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 dataset includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Modeling coastal weather patterns based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation and track data for vessel traffic or research cruise planning.
• Studying physical oceanographic properties like temperature or salinity from profile and time series data.
• Correlating optical measurements with biological or sedimentological observations in coastal waters.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 27-day cruise in 2018, providing a temporally bounded snapshot.
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) logged from a single research platform.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log for context.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2018-09-14 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

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2018-08-19 to 2018-09-14

Freshness

2018-09-14 00:00:00

Geography

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