NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker Underway Oceanographic Data from the North Pacific, 2020

NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker collected raw underway biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the North Pacific Ocean from September 6 to 11, 2020. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these time series data and cruise-level metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The data were archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) automated program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on the meteorological and physical data mentioned in the description.
• Analyzing marine biological patterns based on the biological and optical data collected underway.
• Studying ship-track time series for navigational and geospatial analysis.
• Validating satellite or model data against in-situ physical and optical measurements.

Strengths

• Data collection covers multiple domains: biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data is from a specific, known vessel (NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker) and time period (2020-09 06 to 2020-09-11).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2020-09-11 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2020-09-06 to 2020-09-11

Freshness

Last updated 2020-09-11 00:00:00.

Geography

North Pacific Ocean