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

North Pacific Ocean underway data collected by NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada from May 2 to May 11, 2018. The dataset contains raw meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS). It was submitted by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel and 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 track influence on optical measurements based on navigational and optical data
• Studying temporal variability in oceanographic conditions based on profile and time series data
• Validating satellite-derived sea surface data based on in-situ physical and optical measurements

Strengths

• Data spans a specific 10-day cruise from May 2 to May 11, 2018
• Includes multiple data types: 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
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Last updated 2018-05-11; 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

2018-05-02 to 2018-05-11

Freshness

Last updated 2018-05-11 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean