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

NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data in the North Pacific Ocean during April 2019. The data were logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System and submitted to the National Centers for Environmental Information via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. This accession includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Modeling oceanographic conditions based on underway physical data
• Analyzing meteorological trends over a maritime route based on logged weather data
• Correlating navigational and optical measurements for environmental monitoring
• Studying time-series patterns in ship-collected data for a specific cruise

Strengths

• Data collected over a continuous 28-day period from 2019-04 02 to 2019-04-29
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical
• 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 2019-04-29 00:00:00; freshness should be verified
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Data logged by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker and submitted via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program.

Time Range

2019-04-02 to 2019-04-29

Freshness

Last updated 2019-04-29 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean