NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker Underway Data from Southeast Alaska and North Pacific, 2016
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Description
Raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical and time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker. The data was collected in the Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia and the North Pacific Ocean from June 28 to September 24, 2016. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information.
Use Cases
Modeling coastal oceanographic conditions based on the described physical data.
Analyzing meteorological trends over a voyage based on the described time series.
Correlating ship navigation with environmental observations based on the described navigational data.
Studying optical properties of coastal waters based on the described optical data.
Strengths
Data collection spans a nearly three-month period from 2016-06-28 to 2016-09-24.
Data includes multiple environmental domains: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
Data and metadata were submitted via an automated process under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Last updated 2016-09-24 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
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
2016-06-28 to 2016-09-24
Freshness
Last updated 2016-09 24 00:00:00
Geography
Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, North Pacific Ocean