NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Oceanographic and Meteorological Data, November 2017

NCEI Accession 0170694 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada. The data was collected in the North Pacific Ocean from 2017-11-01 to 2017-11-08 and submitted to the National Centers for Environmental Information by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel. Supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log is also included, archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere heat and gas exchange based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and their correlation with oceanographic conditions.
• Studying temporal variability in oceanographic profiles collected during the cruise.
• Validating satellite-derived optical measurements with in-situ underway optical data.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple measurement types: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data collection follows a standardized NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository automated archiving process.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2017-11-08 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• 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 the ship and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2017-11-01 to 2017-11-08

Freshness

Last updated 2017-11-08 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean