NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Oceanographic Data from September 2020

NCEI Accession 0220348 contains 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 2020-09-20 to 2020-09-30 and submitted to the National Centers for Environmental Information by NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations.

Use Cases

• Analyze oceanographic time series based on the logged physical and chemical data.
• Model marine biological distributions based on the underway biological measurements.
• Correlate meteorological conditions with oceanographic profiles based on the combined data streams.
• Study ship-track navigation patterns and their environmental context based on the navigational and supplementary metadata.

Strengths

• Data spans multiple oceanographic domains including biological, chemical, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical measurements.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data collection occurred over a defined 10-day period from 2020-09-20 to 2020-09 30.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2020-09-30 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard the ship and archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Time Range

2020-09-20 to 2020-09-30

Freshness

Last updated 2020-09-30 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean