NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Data from Southeast Alaska, September 2019

NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data in the Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia and the North Pacific Ocean from 2019-09-11 to 2019-09-16. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. The accession also contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Modeling coastal oceanographic processes based on underway physical and profile data
• Analyzing ship-track meteorological conditions based on logged weather data
• Studying temporal patterns in marine environments based on the time series data mentioned in the description
• Correlating navigational tracks with optical measurements based on the multi-sensor data collection

Strengths

• Data collected over a specific 6-day cruise from 2019-09-11 to 2019-09-16
• 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 the automated NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Last updated 2019-09-16 00:00:00; freshness should be verified

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

2019-09-11 to 2019-09-16

Freshness

Last updated 2019-09-16 00:00:00

Geography

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