NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Oceanographic Data, North Pacific 2018

NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data in the North Pacific Ocean from 2018-07-15 to 2018-07-25. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) personnel submitted the data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL) to NCEI. The data were archived via an automated process under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (NOAA R2R) program.

Use Cases

• Modeling air-sea heat and gas exchange based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship track influence on optical measurements for sensor calibration.
• Correlating navigational data with physical oceanographic profiles for spatial analysis.
• Validating time series sensor data against logged cruise-level metadata from the SDAL.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a specific 11-day cruise from 2018-07-15 to 2018-07-25.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).
• Archived via a formal automated process under the NOAA R2R program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2018-07-25 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2018-07 15 to 2018-07-25

Freshness

Last updated 2018-07-25 00:00:00.

Geography

North Pacific Ocean