NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Data in the North Pacific Ocean, March-April 2016

NCEI Accession 0150875 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada. The data was collected in the North Pacific Ocean during a one-month cruise from 2016-03-23 to 2016-04-23. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to NCEI as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling marine weather conditions based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and ocean currents based on navigational data.
• Studying temporal changes in ocean properties based on physical and optical time series data.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a continuous one-month period from March 23 to April 23, 2016.
• Includes multiple data streams (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) logged by a dedicated Scientific Computer System.
• Cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log is included.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2016-04-23 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated archival from the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program, with data logged by shipboard Scientific Computer System and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2016-03-23 to 2016-04-23

Freshness

2016-04-23 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean