NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Data in the North Pacific Ocean, June 2016

NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the North Pacific Ocean during a two-week cruise from June 13 to 26, 2016. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, which was logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System and archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. The accession includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Modeling air-sea heat and gas exchange based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship track influence on local atmospheric measurements based on navigational and time-series data.
• Calibrating remote optical sensors based on in-situ optical data collected aboard the vessel.
• Studying short-term oceanic and atmospheric variability in the North Pacific based on the two-week time series.

Strengths

• Data spans a specific two-week cruise from 2016-06-13 to 2016-06-26, providing a continuous time series.
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) logged from a single platform.
• Archived through the formal NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) automated process, suggesting standardized collection.

Limitations

• Last updated 2016-06-26 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• 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 NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2016-06-13 to 2016-06-26

Freshness

2016-06 26 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean