NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Data from the North Pacific Ocean, March-April 2018

NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the North Pacific Ocean from March 30 to April 27, 2018. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, which was logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System and archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. The accession includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere heat and gas exchange based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship track and environmental conditions based on navigational and time-series data.
• Studying optical properties of seawater in a specific region and time period based on optical data mentioned.
• Correlating cruise activities with sensor readings using the supplementary Ship Daily Activity Log metadata.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 29-day voyage from 2018-03-30 to 2018-04-27.
• Includes multiple data streams: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Archived through an established automated process under the NOAA R2R program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2018-04-27 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2018-03-30 to 2018-04-27

Freshness

Last updated 2018-04-27 00:00:00.

Geography

North Pacific Ocean