Raw underway biological, chemical, meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile and time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada. The data was collected in the North Pacific Ocean from 2020-03-12 to 2020-03-20 and submitted to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.
Use Cases
- Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on meteorological and physical data.
- Studying marine ecosystem dynamics based on biological and chemical measurements.
- Analyzing vessel-based environmental sampling patterns based on navigational and time series data.
- Correlating in-situ optical properties with biological activity based on optical and profile data.
Strengths
- Data spans multiple oceanographic domains (biological, chemical, meteorological, physical) collected simultaneously.
- Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
- Collected over a 9-day period in March 2020, providing a continuous time series.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Last updated 2020-03-20 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA_NCEI
- Collection Method
- Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada and submitted by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel.
- Time Range
- 2020-03-12 to 2020-03-20
- Freshness
- 2020-03-20
- Geography
- North Pacific Ocean