NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Data in the North Pacific Ocean, 2018

NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the North Pacific Ocean from 2018-01-25 to 2018-02 11. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log. The NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program automated the archival process for this accession.

Use Cases

• Correlating meteorological conditions with oceanographic readings based on the described underway data collection.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental interactions based on the navigational and time series data.
• Studying short-term physical oceanographic phenomena in the North Pacific based on the described time series and location.
• Validating satellite or model data with in-situ optical and physical measurements from the described cruise.

Strengths

• Data collection is tied to a specific NOAA research vessel and cruise, providing clear provenance.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log for context.
• Data was archived through an automated process under the NOAA R2R program, suggesting standardized handling.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2018-02-11 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

Collection Method

Raw underway data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2018-01-25 to 2018-02-11

Freshness

Last updated 2018-02-11 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean