NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker Underway Oceanographic Data from 2015

NODC Accession 0132081 contains raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile and time series data logged by the Scientific Computer System aboard NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker. The data were collected in the Coastal Waters of SE Alaska, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean and North Sea from July 9 to October 22, 2015. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data and associated metadata to NODC as part of the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program.

Use Cases

• Modeling coastal ocean dynamics based on underway physical and profile data.
• Analyzing meteorological conditions at sea based on logged weather data.
• Studying ship navigation patterns and routes based on navigational logs.
• Correlating optical measurements with biological or physical oceanographic events.
• Creating time series analyses of environmental conditions during the 2015 cruise.

Strengths

• Data collection spans a specific 3-month cruise from July to October 2015.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, physical, profile, and time series.
• Data and supplementary cruise-level metadata were logged via automated processes under the NOAA R2R program.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2015-10-22; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated logging by the Scientific Computer System (SCS) aboard NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker, submitted by OMAO personnel.

Time Range

2015-07 09 to 2015-10-22

Freshness

Last updated 2015-10-22 00:00:00

Geography

Coastal Waters of SE Alaska, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean, North Sea