NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker Underway Data in the North Pacific Ocean, 2018

NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the North Pacific Ocean from October to December 2018. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System, to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The archive includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log, processed automatically under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Correlate meteorological conditions with oceanographic readings based on the described underway data collection.
• Analyze ship navigation patterns and environmental conditions based on the logged navigational and meteorological data.
• Model physical oceanographic processes using the time-series physical data mentioned in the description.
• Validate automated data archiving pipelines for marine research vessels based on the NOAA R2R program metadata.

Strengths

• Data spans a two-month continuous time series from 2018-10-04 to 2018-12 04.
• 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.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2018-12-04 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2018-10-04 to 2018-12-04

Freshness

Last updated 2018-12-04 00:00:00.

Geography

North Pacific Ocean