NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Oceanographic Data, 2015-2020

NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada collected raw underway biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the North Pacific Ocean from 2015-10-02 to 2020-03-21. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these data and associated metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The automated archiving process was developed under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing marine ecosystem changes based on biological and optical time series.
• Studying ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions based on navigational and time series data.
• Correlating physical oceanographic measurements with biological observations.

Strengths

• Data spans over 4.5 years from October 2015 to March 2020.
• Includes multiple data domains: biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2020-03-21; freshness should be verified.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

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

2015-10-02 to 2020-03-21

Freshness

Last updated 2020-03-21 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean