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

Raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged aboard NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and supplementary cruise-level metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The data were collected in the North Pacific Ocean from October 6 to October 13, 2016, as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling ocean-atmosphere heat and gas exchange based on meteorological and physical data.
• Analyzing ship track influence on local measurements based on navigational data.
• Calibrating remote sensing instruments based on in-situ optical data.
• Studying short-term oceanic variability based on time series physical data.

Strengths

• Data collection is temporally precise, covering a specific 8-day voyage from 2016-10-06 to 2016-10 13.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data were archived via an automated process under the NOAA R2R program, suggesting standardized collection.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2016-10-13 00:00:00; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated logging by the Scientific Computer System aboard the ship, submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2016-10-06 to 2016-10-13

Freshness

Last updated 2016-10-13 00:00:00.

Geography

North Pacific Ocean