NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker Underway Data from the North Pacific Ocean, 2016

Raw underway data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker during a cruise in the North Pacific Ocean. The dataset includes meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data collected from 2016-04-26 to 2016-06-12. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated cruise-level metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Correlating meteorological conditions with oceanographic readings based on the described time series data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions based on the logged navigational and meteorological data.
• Studying optical properties of seawater mentioned in the dataset description.
• Validating or calibrating oceanographic models using the described physical data collected underway.

Strengths

• Data spans a specific 48-day cruise from 2016-04-26 to 2016-06-12.
• 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 2016 06 12 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated logging by the ship's Scientific Computer System (SCS) and submission via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Time Range

2016-04-26 to 2016-06-12

Freshness

Last updated 2016-06-12 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean