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

NCEI Accession 0170699 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged aboard NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker. The data was collected in the North Pacific Ocean from July 25 to August 8, 2016, and submitted to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel. The dataset includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Use Cases

• Modeling marine meteorological conditions based on the described underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns in the North Pacific Ocean based on the navigational data.
• Studying oceanographic time series for physical and optical properties mentioned in the description.
• Validating automated data logging and archival processes like the NOAA R2R program.

Strengths

• Data collection is tied to a specific NOAA research vessel and cruise, providing clear provenance.
• Includes multiple data types (meteorological, navigational, optical, physical) logged as a time series.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log (SDAL).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2016-08-08 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard the ship and submitted by OMAO personnel via the NOAA R2R program.

Time Range

2016-07 25 to 2016-08-08

Freshness

Last updated 2016-08-08 00:00:00.

Geography

North Pacific Ocean