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

From 2016-10-05 to 2016-10-12, raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data were logged aboard the NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada in the North Pacific Ocean. The data and supplementary cruise-level metadata were submitted by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel and archived by the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Use Cases

• Modeling marine weather conditions based on the meteorological data mentioned in the description
• Analyzing ship navigation and track patterns based on the navigational data
• Studying oceanographic profiles and time series based on the physical and optical data

Strengths

• Data collection covers a specific 8-day cruise from 2016-10-05 to 2016-10 12
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL)

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Last updated 2016-10-12 00:00:00; freshness should be verified

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard the ship and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2016-10-05 to 2016-10-12

Freshness

Last updated 2016-10-12 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean