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

NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the North Pacific Ocean from April 26 to June 13, 2017. The data were logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System and submitted by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel. This accession also includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, archived via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Correlating meteorological conditions with oceanographic readings based on the described underway physical data.
• Analyzing ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions based on the logged navigational and meteorological data.
• Studying optical properties of seawater over time based on the mentioned optical data streams.
• Validating or calibrating shipboard sensor systems using the described raw time series data.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a specific 49-day period from 2017-04 26 to 2017-06-13.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical, as described.
• Contains supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2017-06-13 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

2017-04-26 to 2017-06-13

Freshness

Last updated 2017-06-13 00:00:00.

Geography

North Pacific Ocean