NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Data from the North Pacific Ocean, 2015

NODC Accession 0125756 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile and time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada. The data were collected in the North Pacific Ocean from 2015-01-31 to 2015-02 04 and submitted to NODC by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere heat and gas exchange based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship track influence on local marine conditions based on navigational and time series data.
• Studying optical properties of seawater in a specific region based on optical profile data.
• Correlating weather patterns with subsurface oceanographic features based on meteorological and profile data.

Strengths

• Data collection follows a standardized automated process under the NOAA R2R program.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Covers multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, time series) from a single voyage.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2015-02-04 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI (National Centers for Environmental Information)

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard the ship and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2015-01-31 to 2015-02-04

Freshness

2015-02-04 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean