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

From 2018-07 30 to 2018-08-14, raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data were logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard the NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada in the North Pacific Ocean. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The data were archived through an automated process under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling marine meteorological conditions based on the described underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation and track patterns based on the navigational data.
• Studying physical oceanographic properties based on the described physical data.
• Conducting time-series analysis of environmental variables during the cruise.

Strengths

• Data collection covers a specific 16-day period from July 30 to August 14, 2018.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data archived through an established NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2018-08-14 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2018-07-30 to 2018-08-14

Freshness

Last updated 2018-08-14 00:00:00.

Geography

North Pacific Ocean