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

NCEI Accession 0164861 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 supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The data were collected in the North Pacific Ocean from October 6 to October 13, 2015, as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling marine meteorological conditions based on the described underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns in the North Pacific Ocean based on the navigational data.
• Studying oceanographic profiles and time series based on the described physical and profile data.
• Correlating optical measurements with other environmental variables collected by the ship's systems.

Strengths

• Data collection covers a specific 8-day cruise from October 6 to October 13, 2015.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data were archived through an automated process under the NOAA R2R program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2015-10-13 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• 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 aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2015-10-06 to 2015-10-13

Freshness

Last updated 2015-10-13 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

North Pacific Ocean