NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Oceanographic and Meteorological Data, May-June 2015

NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data in the North Pacific Ocean from 2015-05 29 to 2015-06-10. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel logged the data via the Scientific Computer System and submitted it to NODC under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. The accession includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Modeling North Pacific Ocean surface conditions based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental sensor correlations based on navigational and time series data.
• Studying automated data collection and archival processes for marine research vessels based on the NOAA R2R program metadata.
• Investigating optical properties of seawater in a specific cruise track based on the optical data mentioned.

Strengths

• Data spans multiple domains: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical, collected concurrently.
• Includes both raw instrument data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Collected via an automated archiving process under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program, suggesting standardized formatting.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2015-06-10 00:00:00; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count and file size are 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

2015-05-29 to 2015-06-10

Freshness

Last updated 2015-06-10 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean