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

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 June 30 to July 11, 2018, 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.

Use Cases

• Analyze meteorological conditions based on the underway meteorological data mentioned in the description
• Study oceanographic profiles based on the physical and profile data mentioned in the description
• Correlate ship navigation with environmental measurements based on the navigational data mentioned in the description
• Model time-series trends in optical ocean properties based on the optical and time series data mentioned in the description

Strengths

• Data collection spans a specific 12-day cruise from 2018-06-30 to 2018-07-11
• 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 2018-07-11 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 via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Time Range

2018-06 30 to 2018-07-11

Freshness

Last updated 2018-07-11 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean