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

From August 19 to September 30, 2016, raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data were logged aboard the NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada in the North Pacific Ocean. The data were submitted by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel and archived by the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program via NCEI Accession 0164088.

Use Cases

• Correlating atmospheric and oceanic conditions based on the described meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns in relation to environmental variables based on the navigational data.
• Studying temporal environmental changes in the North Pacific based on the time series data collection.
• Validating satellite or model-derived oceanographic data using the described underway physical measurements.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a specific 43-day period from 2016-08-19 to 2016-09-30.
• Includes multiple data types described as 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 2016-09-30 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 Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard the ship and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2016-08-19 to 2016-09-30

Freshness

Last updated 2016-09-30 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean