NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Oceanographic Data from February 2016

NCEI Accession 0150876 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile and time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from a voyage in the North Pacific Ocean between February 13 and 17, 2016. The data were archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on the meteorological and physical data mentioned in the description.
• Analyzing ship track and environmental conditions based on the navigational and time series data.
• Studying optical properties of seawater based on the optical data collected.
• Creating integrated marine profiles based on the profile data logged by the Scientific Computer System.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple measurement types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, time series) for integrated analysis.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).
• Data collection is documented over a specific 5-day period from 2016-02-13 to 2016-02 17.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2016-02-17 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2016-02-13 to 2016-02-17

Freshness

Last updated 2016-02-17 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean