NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Data from the North Pacific Ocean, March 2013

Raw underway data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada during a 10-day cruise in March 2013. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data to the National Oceanographic Data Center. The data were archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository automated process and include 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 influence on local measurements based on navigational and time series data.
• Calibrating optical sensor readings against physical profile data collected during the cruise.
• Studying short-term environmental variability in the North Pacific based on the 10-day time series.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple measurement types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile) logged from a single platform.
• Cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log provides supplementary context.
• Data collection follows a standardized NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository automated archiving process.

Limitations

• Last updated 2013-03-10 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated logging by the Scientific Computer System aboard the ship, submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2013-03-01 to 2013-03-10

Freshness

Last updated 2013-03-10 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean