NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker Underway Data from the North Pacific Ocean, January 2020

Raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker. The data was collected in the North Pacific Ocean from 2020-01-04 to 2020-01-26 and submitted to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) by Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel. Supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log is also included, archived via the 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 time-series of physical oceanographic properties in the North Pacific.
• Correlating optical measurements with other environmental variables collected underway.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 23-day cruise from 2020-01-04 to 2020-01-26.
• Includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.
• Data collection was automated under the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2020-01-26 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated logging by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard the ship, submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2020-01-04 to 2020-01 26

Freshness

Last updated 2020-01-26 00:00:00

Geography

North Pacific Ocean