NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Meteorological and Oceanographic Data, May 2018

North Pacific Ocean data collected aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada from May 17 to May 29, 2018. The dataset contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information.

Use Cases

• Modeling marine weather patterns based on underway meteorological data
• Analyzing ship navigation and track data for operational research
• Studying physical oceanographic profiles and time series for environmental monitoring
• Integrating optical measurements with other underway data for water quality studies

Strengths

• Data collection spans a 13-day continuous cruise in the North Pacific Ocean
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log
• Archived via an automated process under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Last updated 2018-05-29 00:00:00; freshness should be verified

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2018-05 17 to 2018-05-29

Freshness

Last updated 2018-05-29 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean