Underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical and time series data collected ab

NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data in the North Pacific Ocean from 2017-03-21 to 2017-04-22. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The data were archived through the automated NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling marine weather patterns based on underway meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation and track data for oceanographic research vessel operations.
• Studying physical oceanographic properties from the described time series measurements.
• Integrating optical sensor data with meteorological observations for environmental monitoring.

Strengths

• Data spans a focused 33-day cruise in the North Pacific Ocean, providing a continuous temporal snapshot.
• Includes multiple data types logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System, suggesting integrated measurements.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log for context.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2017-04-22 00:00:00; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker and submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2017-03 21 to 2017-04-22

Freshness

Data collection ended on 2017-04-22.

Geography

North Pacific Ocean