NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada Underway Data from the North Pacific Ocean, 2013

NODC Accession 0116842 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, time series and trawl data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these data and associated metadata to NODC during a cruise in the North Pacific Ocean from 2013-09 09 to 2013-09-16. The data were archived through an automated process under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship track and environmental conditions based on navigational and physical data.
• Studying temporal patterns in the marine environment based on time series data.
• Calibrating satellite-derived oceanographic measurements based on in-situ profile and optical data.

Strengths

• Data collection is attributed to a specific NOAA research vessel and cruise, providing clear provenance.
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, time series, trawl) logged from a single platform.
• Supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log is included.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2013-09-16 00:00:00; freshness should be verified for contemporary applications.
• 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.

Time Range

2013-09-09 to 2013-09-16

Freshness

Last updated 2013-09-16 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean