NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Oceanographic Data from March 2015

NODC Accession 0126660 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile and time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these data and associated metadata from a cruise in the North Pacific Ocean between March 7 and March 22, 2015. The data were archived through an automated process under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions based on navigational and physical data.
• Studying temporal variability in ocean properties based on time series and profile data.
• Calibrating satellite or model data with in-situ optical and physical measurements.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a specific 16-day period from March 7 to March 22, 2015.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series.
• Data and supplementary cruise-level metadata were logged via established systems (SCS and SDAL).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2015-03-22; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count and file formats 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

2015-03-07 to 2015-03-22

Freshness

Last updated 2015-03-22 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean