NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker Underway Data from Southeast Alaska and North Pacific, 2017

From June 19 to August 11, 2017, raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data were logged aboard the NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker in the Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska, British Columbia, and the North Pacific Ocean. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log. The NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program automated the archival of this dataset.

Use Cases

• Modeling coastal meteorology based on underway meteorological data
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns based on logged navigational data
• Studying ocean optical properties based on collected optical data
• Investigating physical oceanographic time series based on the continuous logged data

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 54-day cruise from June 19 to August 11, 2017
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Last updated 2017-08-11 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 aboard NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2017-06-19 to 2017-08-11

Freshness

Last updated 2017-08-11 00:00:00

Geography

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