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

NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the North Pacific Ocean from October 19 to 30, 2016. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted these data and supplementary cruise-level metadata to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The data were archived through the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program's automated process.

Use Cases

• Analyze meteorological conditions over the ocean based on the described meteorological data.
• Study ship navigation patterns and environmental correlations based on the navigational and physical data.
• Model oceanographic time series based on the described optical and physical data streams.
• Validate automated data logging and archival processes for research vessels based on the NOAA R2R program metadata.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple environmental domains: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Collected via an automated archival process under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2016-10-30 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

2016-10 19 to 2016-10-30

Freshness

Last updated 2016-10-30 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean