NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Oceanographic and Meteorological Data, April-May 2014

North Pacific Ocean underway data collected aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada from 2014-04 15 to 2014-05-12. The dataset contains raw meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and 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 associated metadata to NODC as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions in the North Pacific.
• Studying temporal profiles of oceanographic variables from the time series data.
• Validating automated data logging and archival processes for research vessels.

Strengths

• Data spans a continuous 28-day period from April 15 to May 12, 2014.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, and profile.
• Collected via an automated process under the NOAA R2R program, which suggests standardized logging.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2014-05-12 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated logging by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS) and submission by OMAO personnel under the NOAA R2R program.

Time Range

2014-04-15 to 2014-05-12

Freshness

Last updated 2014-05-12 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean