Underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical and time series data collected ab

North Pacific Ocean underway data collected by NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada from 2018-10-11 to 2018-11-08. The dataset contains raw meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS). NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) personnel submitted the data and supplementary cruise-level metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) via the NOAA R2R program.

Use Cases

• Modeling marine weather patterns based on the meteorological data mentioned in the description
• Analyzing ship track and oceanographic conditions based on the navigational and physical data
• Studying temporal variability in ocean properties based on the time series data
• Validating satellite-derived oceanographic measurements based on the in-situ optical and physical data

Strengths

• Data collection spans a continuous 29-day period in 2018.
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) from a single research cruise.
• Data and metadata were submitted via an automated process under the NOAA R2R 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 2018-11-08 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2018-10 11 to 2018-11-08

Freshness

Last updated 2018-11-08 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean