NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Data from the North Pacific Ocean, May 2016

NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data in the North Pacific Ocean from 2016-05-27 to 2016-05-28. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) personnel submitted the data, which was logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS) and archived by NCEI under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program. The accession also includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).

Use Cases

• Correlating meteorological conditions with oceanographic variables based on the described multi-sensor data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions based on the logged navigational and time series data.
• Validating satellite or model data against in-situ shipborne measurements based on the optical and physical data mentioned.
• Studying short-term environmental variability in the North Pacific based on the two-day time series.

Strengths

• Data originates from a NOAA research vessel's Scientific Computer System (SCS), suggesting institutional collection standards.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL) for context.
• Data collection covers multiple domains: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.

Limitations

• Last updated 2016-05-28 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2016-05 27 to 2016-05-28

Freshness

Data from a specific two-day period in May 2016.

Geography

North Pacific Ocean