NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Data from Southeast Alaska and North Pacific, 2017

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 2017-09-18 to 2017-09-29. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) personnel aboard the ship submitted these data and associated metadata to NCEI via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) automated archiving program.

Use Cases

• Modeling coastal atmospheric conditions based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship track navigation and oceanographic profile data for route optimization studies.
• Studying temporal physical oceanographic changes based on the time series data mentioned.
• Correlating optical measurements with biological or sediment transport phenomena in coastal waters.

Strengths

• Data spans a specific 12-day cruise from 2017-09 18 to 2017-09-29.
• Includes multiple data types logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS): meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2017-09-29 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Collection Method

Automated process archiving raw underway data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada.

Time Range

2017-09-18 to 2017-09-29

Freshness

Last updated 2017-09-29 00:00:00.

Geography

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