NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker Underway Oceanographic Data from the North Pacific, 2021

NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker collected raw underway biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, and time series data in the North Pacific Ocean from 2021-04 28 to 2021-06-11. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and cruise-level metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling oceanographic conditions based on underway physical data
• Analyzing biological activity patterns based on underway biological data
• Correlating meteorological and oceanographic time series data
• Studying ship-track environmental transects based on navigational data

Strengths

• Data spans multiple domains: biological, meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log
• Collected via an automated archiving process under the NOAA R2R program

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Last updated 2021-06-11 00:00:00; freshness should be verified

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2021-04-28 to 2021-06-11

Freshness

Last updated 2021-06-11 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean