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

NCEI Accession 0177126 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log. The data were collected in the North Pacific Ocean from September 20 to September 28, 2018.

Use Cases

• Correlating atmospheric and oceanic conditions based on the described meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship track and environmental interactions based on navigational and time series data.
• Validating satellite or model data using the in-situ optical and profile measurements mentioned.
• Studying short-term environmental variability in the North Pacific based on the nine-day time range.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple measurement types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, time series) as described.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data collection has a specific and documented time range from 2018-09-20 to 2018-09 28.
• Data was archived through 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, file formats, and sample data are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2018-09-28 00:00:00; freshness should be verified for current applications.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard the ship and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2018-09-20 to 2018-09-28

Freshness

Last updated 2018-09-28 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean