NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Data from SE Alaska, 2013

NODC Accession 0116843 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, time series, and trawl data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada. The data were collected in the Coastal Waters of SE Alaska and North Pacific Ocean from June to September 2013 and submitted to NODC by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling coastal oceanographic conditions based on underway physical and profile data.
• Analyzing vessel navigation patterns and environmental correlations based on logged navigational and meteorological data.
• Studying time-series trends in marine optical properties mentioned in the description.
• Correlating trawl data with concurrent physical oceanographic measurements.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a focused 3-month period from 2013-06-06 to 2013-09 09.
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, time series, trawl) from a single research cruise.
• Data were collected and archived via an automated process under the NOAA R2R program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2013-09-09 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard the ship and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2013-06-06 to 2013-09-09

Freshness

Last updated 2013-09-09 00:00:00

Geography

Coastal Waters of SE Alaska and North Pacific Ocean