NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker Underway Data from the North Pacific Ocean, February 2019

North Pacific Ocean underway data collected aboard NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker from 2019-02-06 to 2019-02-13. The dataset contains raw meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System. NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations submitted the data and metadata to NCEI via the Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling air-sea heat and gas exchange based on underway meteorological and physical data.
• Calibrating remote sensing instruments based on in-situ optical measurements.
• Analyzing ship track efficiency and environmental conditions based on navigational time series.
• Studying short-term oceanographic variability in the North Pacific based on the physical time series.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 8-day cruise in the North Pacific Ocean from 2019-02 06 to 2019-02-13.
• Includes multiple data streams: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical measurements.
• 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 2019-02-13 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated archival via NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program from shipboard Scientific Computer System logs.

Time Range

2019-02-06 to 2019-02-13

Freshness

Last updated 2019-02-13 00:00:00.

Geography

North Pacific Ocean