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

NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data in the North Pacific Ocean from 2016-05 14 to 2016-05-28. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The data were archived through an automated process under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Correlating meteorological conditions with oceanographic profiles based on the described data types.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns in relation to physical ocean measurements.
• Modeling time series of optical properties in the North Pacific Ocean.
• Validating automated data logging and archival processes for scientific cruises.

Strengths

• Contains multiple data types logged by a ship's Scientific Computer System.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Limitations

• Last updated 2016-05-28 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is 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

2016-05-14 to 2016-05-28

Freshness

Last updated 2016-05-28 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean