NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Data from the North Pacific Ocean, September 2019

Raw underway data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada in the North Pacific Ocean from 2019-09-20 to 2019-09-29. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series data under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. The accession also contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on underway meteorological and physical data
• Analyzing ship track and environmental conditions based on navigational and time series data
• Correlating optical measurements with physical oceanographic profiles
• Studying short-term environmental variability in the North Pacific based on the 10-day cruise data

Strengths

• Data collection is tied to a specific, documented 10-day cruise from 2019-09-20 to 2019-09-29
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, time series) from a single platform
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Last updated 2019-09-29 00:00:00; freshness should be verified
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

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 R2R program.

Time Range

2019-09 20 to 2019-09-29

Freshness

Last updated 2019-09-29 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean