NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Data in the North Pacific Ocean, March 2018

NCEI Accession 0172131 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 during a cruise from March 10 to March 21, 2018. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated cruise-level metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information 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 track influence on local optical measurements based on logged optical data.
• Studying oceanographic profiles and time series for water column structure in the North Pacific.
• Correlating navigational data with environmental observations for spatial analysis of marine phenomena.

Strengths

• Data spans a 12-day continuous cruise, providing a temporal snapshot of conditions.
• Includes multiple data streams: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2018-03-21; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated archival via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program from shipboard Scientific Computer System logs.

Time Range

2018-03-10 to 2018-03-21

Freshness

Last updated 2018-03 21 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean