NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Data from the North Pacific Ocean, 2014

From 2014-01-28 to 2014-02 07, raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data were logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada in the North Pacific Ocean. The data and supplementary cruise-level metadata were submitted by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel and archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Correlating meteorological conditions with oceanographic readings based on the described underway physical data.
• Analyzing ship track and environmental interaction based on the navigational and time series data.
• Studying short-term environmental variability in the North Pacific based on the 11-day time series.
• Validating automated data logging and archival processes like NOAA R2R based on the described collection method.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple sensor types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) for integrated analysis.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Collected via an automated archival process under the NOAA R2R program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2014-02-07 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 ship's Scientific Computer System and submitted by OMAO personnel, archived via NOAA R2R.

Time Range

2014-01-28 to 2014-02-07

Freshness

Last updated 2014-02-07 00:00:00.

Geography

North Pacific Ocean