NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker Underway Oceanographic Data from March-April 2021

NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker collected raw underway biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the North Pacific Ocean from 2021-03-20 to 2021-04-13. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, which was archived by the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program under NCEI Accession 0229059. The dataset includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere interactions based on the meteorological and physical data mentioned.
• Analyzing marine biological patterns based on the biological data collected underway.
• Studying ship navigation and environmental conditions based on the navigational and optical data.
• Conducting time-series analysis of oceanographic variables across the cruise track.

Strengths

• Data covers multiple oceanographic domains (biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) collected simultaneously.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data collection follows a standardized NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) automated archiving process.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2021-04-13 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2021-03 20 to 2021-04-13

Freshness

2021-04-13 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean