NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Data from the North Pacific Ocean, September 2014

NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the North Pacific Ocean for a 6-day period in September 2014. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, which was logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System and archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. The dataset includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Correlating meteorological conditions with oceanographic profiles based on the described physical and profile data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and their environmental context based on the navigational and time series data.
• Studying short-term oceanic and atmospheric variability in the North Pacific based on the 6-day time series.
• Validating satellite-derived optical measurements with in-situ ship-based optical data.

Strengths

• Data collection is tied to a specific NOAA research vessel and a documented 6-day cruise from September 25-30, 2014.
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) logged by an integrated Scientific Computer System.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, providing operational context.

Limitations

• Last updated 2014-09-30 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

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

Time Range

2014-09 25 to 2014-09-30

Freshness

2014-09-30

Geography

North Pacific Ocean