NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker Underway Data from the North Pacific Ocean, January 2017

NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the North Pacific Ocean from 2017-01-05 to 2017-01-29. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and supplementary 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 parameters based on the described underway data collection.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental sensor readings for operational research.
• Validating regional climate or weather models using time-series physical data from a specific cruise.
• Studying optical properties of seawater in the North Pacific during the winter period.

Strengths

• Data spans a continuous 25-day period in January 2017, providing a temporal snapshot.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical, suggesting multivariate potential.
• Collected via an automated archiving process (NOAA R2R), which may promote consistency.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2017-01-29; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2017-01 05 to 2017-01-29

Freshness

Last updated 2017-01-29 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean