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

NODC Accession 0115912 contains raw underway data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada. The data includes meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, time series, and trawl information collected in the North Pacific Ocean from April 6 to April 30, 2013. NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated metadata under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on the meteorological and physical data mentioned in the description.
• Analyzing vessel navigation patterns based on the navigational data logged by the Scientific Computer System.
• Studying marine biological sampling based on the trawl data collected during the cruise.
• Validating satellite or model data based on the in-situ optical and time series measurements.

Strengths

• Data collection is documented for a specific 25-day cruise from April 6 to 30, 2013.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data was submitted through an automated archiving process under the NOAA R2R program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2013-04-30 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

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

Time Range

2013-04 06 to 2013-04-30

Freshness

Last updated 2013-04-30 00:00:00.

Geography

North Pacific Ocean