North Pacific Ocean underway data collected aboard NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker from March 22 to April 23, 2016. The dataset contains raw meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS). NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.
Use Cases
- Modeling marine weather conditions based on the described meteorological data.
- Analyzing ship navigation and track patterns based on the navigational data.
- Studying oceanographic time series based on the physical and optical data.
- Correlating underway sensor readings with other environmental datasets based on the cruise-level metadata.
Strengths
- Data collection spans a defined 33-day period from 2016-03-22 to 2016-04 23.
- Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).
- Data was submitted and archived through an automated process under the NOAA R2R program.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last updated 2016-04-23 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA_NCEI
- Collection Method
- Raw underway data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker and submitted by OMAO personnel.
- Time Range
- 2016-03-22 to 2016-04-23
- Freshness
- Last updated 2016-04-23 00:00:00.
- Geography
- North Pacific Ocean