NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Data from the North Pacific Ocean, May 2017

Raw underway data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada during a cruise in the North Pacific Ocean from May 15 to May 24, 2017. The dataset includes meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series measurements submitted by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel. Data and supplementary cruise-level metadata were archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling air-sea heat and gas exchange based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship track influence on optical measurements for instrument calibration.
• Studying oceanic profiles and time series for regional physical oceanography.
• Correlating navigational data with environmental observations for spatial analysis.

Strengths

• Data spans multiple domains: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Collected via an automated archiving process under the NOAA R2R program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2017-05-24; freshness should be verified for current research.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2017-05 15 to 2017-05-24

Freshness

Last updated 2017-05-24 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean