NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Data from the North Pacific Ocean, April-May 2019

NCEI Accession 0189036 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada. The data was collected in the North Pacific Ocean from 2019-04 29 to 2019-05-10 and submitted to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel. Supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log is also included, archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship track and environmental conditions based on navigational and time series data.
• Studying optical properties of seawater based on the optical data mentioned.
• Correlating physical oceanographic variables with location and time based on the described data types.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple concurrent measurement types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).
• Data collection follows a defined automated archiving process under the NOAA R2R program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2019-05-10 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 (SCS) aboard the ship and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2019-04-29 to 2019-05-10

Freshness

Last updated 2019-05-10 00:00:00.

Geography

North Pacific Ocean