Underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical and time series data collected ab

NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia and the North Pacific Ocean from June to September 2019. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these time series data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log. The data were archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) automated process.

Use Cases

• Model coastal weather patterns based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyze ship navigation and environmental interaction based on logged navigational data.
• Study optical properties of coastal waters based on optical sensor data.
• Investigate physical oceanographic processes in the North Pacific based on time series physical data.
• Validate satellite or model data using in-situ ship-based observations from a known cruise track.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific three-month cruise from 2019-06-13 to 2019-09-10.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Archived through the established NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2019-09-10; freshness should be verified for current applications.

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

2019-06 13 to 2019-09-10

Freshness

Last updated 2019-09-10 00:00:00

Geography

Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, North Pacific Ocean