NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Data from the North Pacific Ocean, 2013

NODC Accession 0115911 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log. The data were archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program for a voyage in the North Pacific Ocean from January 11 to February 2, 2013.

Use Cases

• Correlating meteorological conditions with oceanographic parameters based on the described underway data streams.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions for voyage reconstruction.
• Validating satellite or model data against in-situ physical and optical measurements collected from a research vessel.
• Studying temporal variability of ocean-atmosphere interactions during a winter cruise in the North Pacific.

Strengths

• Data collection is documented as part of the formal NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).
• Covers a specific 23-day voyage from 2013-01-11 to 2013-02 02, providing a defined temporal scope.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2013-02-02 00:00:00; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI (National Centers for Environmental Information)

Collection Method

Automated archival from the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS) under the NOAA R2R program.

Time Range

2013-01-11 to 2013-02-02

Freshness

Last updated 2013-02-02 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean