García-Herrera, Ricardo; Können, Gunther P; Wheeler, Dennis A; Prieto, Maria del Rosario; Jones, Philip D; Koek, Frits B (2010): Meteorological observations during BADGER cruise from River Gambia to River Serralione started at 1752-08-26 [dataset]. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, United Kingdom, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.746890, In: Jones, Philip D; Wheeler, Dennis A; Können, Gunther P; Koek, Frits B; Prieto, Maria del Rosario; García-Herrera, Ricardo (2007): Climatological observations from ship logbooks between 1750 and 1854 (release 2.1) [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.611088
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Related to:
García-Herrera, Ricardo; Können, Gunther P; Wheeler, Dennis A; Prieto, Maria del Rosario; Jones, Philip D; Koek, Frits B (2005): CLIWOC: A Climatological Database for the World's Oceans 1750–1854 (and 10 more publications about CLIWOC results in the same volume). Climatic Change, 73(1-2), 1-12ff, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-005-6952-6
Project(s):
Funding:
Fifth Framework Programme (FP5), grant/award no. EVK2-CT-2000-00090: Climatological Database for the Worlds Oceans: 1750-1854
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 11.040000 * Median Longitude: -17.765455 * South-bound Latitude: 8.380000 * West-bound Longitude: -19.080000 * North-bound Latitude: 13.530000 * East-bound Longitude: -15.090000
Event(s):
Badger_17520826_NMM_ADM/L/B3 * Campaign: Cliwoc_cruise * Method/Device: Underway cruise track measurements (CT) * Comment: Ship: Badger (Snow), Start of voyage: 1752-08-26, End of voyage: 1752-09-17, Voyage: River Gambia - River Serralione, 1st Observer: Thomas Hankenson (Captain), 2nd Observer: Francis Swanston (1st Officer/Master), Company: Royal Navy, Other ship information: 10G 268BM SWALLOW CLASS
Parameter(s):
| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Date/time start | Date/time start | ||||
| 2 | LATITUDE | Latitude | Geocode | |||
| 3 | LONGITUDE | Longitude | Geocode | |||
| 4 | Wind direction | dd | deg | Wind direction (from which the wind is blowing) in whole degrees from: 1-360; 361 = calm, 362 = variable. It is not clear from many logbook entries whether the wind direction has been corrected for the magnetic variation (or declination). To avoid any misunderstanding, all winds from reports that included a valid position in the period 1750-1854 were corrected. All other wind directions are given without being corrected. | ||
| 5 | Wind speed | ff | m/s | calculated from the descriptive terms of wind force given in the observations | ||
| 6 | Landmark | Landmark | Name of first landmark | |||
| 7 | Bearing | Bearing | Bearing of the first landmark | |||
| 8 | Distance to landmark | Distance | arbitrary units | Distance to the first landmark | ||
| 9 | Course | Course | Course of the ship during the past 24 hours | |||
| 10 | Distance | Distance | arbitrary units | Distance travelled during the previous 24 hours | ||
| 11 | Declination | Decl | deg | It is generally accepted by the CLIWOC team that the wind directions, reported by the ships officers, were relative to the magnetic North direction. Navigators were well aware of the difference between the true and magnetic north direction, but the compasses (we assumed that the bearing-compasses were mostly used for determining the wind direction) were not always adjusted. Therefore the wind direction has to be corrected. The magnetic declination (or variation, as it is known on board ships) is given for the whole CLIWOC period (1750-1850) for every 5x5 degree square. The number was added to the wind direction to get the true wind direction. | ||
| 12 | Wind direction description | Wind dir descr | All reported wind directions on this day. The wind direction is the direction that points to where the wind comes from. | |||
| 13 | Wind force description | Wind force descr | All reported wind forces on this day | |||
| 14 | Present weather | ww | Weather description | |||
| 15 | Precipitation description | Precip descr | ||||
| 16 | State of the sea description | State sea descr | ||||
| 17 | Clearness | Clearness | ||||
| 18 | Gusts | Gusts | 1 If wind gusts are reported | |||
| 19 | Precipitation/Rain | Rain | 1 If rain was reported | |||
| 20 | Fog | Fog | 1 If fog was reported | |||
| 21 | Snow type | Snow | 1 If snow was reported | |||
| 22 | Thunder | Thunder | 1 If thunder and or lightning was reported | |||
| 23 | Hail | Hail | 1 If hail was reported | |||
| 24 | Sea ice | Sea ice | 1 If sea-ice or icebergs were reported | |||
| 25 | Comment | Comment | ||||
| 26 | Identification | ID | CLIWOC 2.1 line number |
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Size:
242 data points
Data
| 1 Date/time start | 2 Latitude | 3 Longitude | 4 dd [deg] (Wind direction (from which th...) | 5 ff [m/s] (calculated from the descripti...) | 6 Landmark (Name of first landmark) | 7 Bearing (Bearing of the first landmark) | 8 Distance [arbitrary units] (Distance to the first landmark) | 9 Course (Course of the ship during the...) | 10 Distance [arbitrary units] (Distance travelled during the...) | 11 Decl [deg] (It is generally accepted by t...) | 12 Wind dir descr (All reported wind directions ...) | 13 Wind force descr (All reported wind forces on t...) | 14 ww (Weather description) | 15 Precip descr | 16 State sea descr | 17 Clearness | 18 Gusts (1 If wind gusts are reported) | 19 Rain (1 If rain was reported) | 20 Fog (1 If fog was reported) | 21 Snow (1 If snow was reported) | 22 Thunder (1 If thunder and or lightning...) | 23 Hail (1 If hail was reported) | 24 Sea ice (1 If sea-ice or icebergs were...) | 25 Comment | 26 ID (CLIWOC 2.1 line number) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1752-08-26T00:00 | 13.60 | 362 | CAPE ST MARY | SBE1/2E | 8 | ENE, SW, VARIABLE | FIRST AND MID MODERATE, LATTER SQUALLY | LATTER RAIN | CLOUDY | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23868 | ||||||||
| 1752-08-27T13:00 | 13.53 | -17.06 | 169 | CAPE ST MARY | N80:00E | 9 | S80:00W | 23.00 | -11 | WSW, NNE, ESE, S | FIRST PART MODERATE, MID PART LITTLE WINDS, LATTER SQUALLY | THUNDER AND LIGHTNING | SMALL RAIN | FIRST PART CLOUDY | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 23869 | |||
| 1752-08-28T13:00 | 13.33 | -18.13 | 37 | 2.6 | CAPE ST MARY | N79:00E | 28 | S78:00W | 60.00 | -8 | S, SWBS, ENE, NE | LITTLE WIND | CLOUDY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23870 | ||||
| 1752-08-29T13:00 | 12.42 | -18.66 | 195 | 2.6 | CAPE ST MARY | N64:05E | 42 | S39:00W | 49.00 | -8 | N-SSW | LITTLE WIND | CLOUDY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23871 | ||||
| 1752-08-30T13:00 | 12.42 | -18.93 | 217 | 2.6 | CAPE ST MARY | N61:47E | 53 | S42:00W | 23.00 | -8 | NW, SWBW, WSW, W, SW | FIRST PART MODERAET, MID LIGHT AIRS, LATTER LITTLE WINDS SOMETIMES SQUALLY | SMALL RAIN | CLOUDY | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23872 | |||
| 1752-08-31T13:00 | 12.35 | -19.04 | 206 | CAPE ST MARY | N61:42E | 53 | S58:00W | 8.00 | -8 | SBE, S, SW, SWBS | FIRST LITTLE WIND, MID FRESH GALES AND SQUALLY, SOMETIMES CALM | FIRST PART CLOUDY, LATTER FAIR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23873 | |||||
| 1752-09-01T13:00 | 11.55 | -19.08 | 362 | 2.6 | CAPE ST MARYS | N49:01E | 64 | S2:00W | 48.00 | -8 | VARIABLE | LITTLE WINDS | FAIR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23874 | ||||
| 1752-09-02T13:00 | 10.00 | -18.73 | 318 | 2.6 | CAPE ST MARYS | N29:18E | 82 | S12:00W | 95.00 | -8 | W, WNW, NWBN | LITTLE WINDS | FAIR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23875 | ||||
| 1752-09-14T13:00 | 9.50 | -17.88 | 296 | CAPE ST MARYS | N16:13E | 85 | S58:00E | 58.00 | -8 | NNW, W, WNW, NWBW | FIRST PART MODERATE, MID PART LIGHT AIRS | EXCESSIVE HARD RAIN | CLOUDY | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | a trivial correction was made in this observation | 23876 | |||
| 1752-09-15T13:00 | 9.23 | -16.81 | 362 | CAPE ST MARYS | N1:56E | 89 | S75:00E | 62.00 | -10 | S, SBW, SSW, VARIABLE | FIRST PART LITTLE WINDS | SMALL RAIN | GREAT RIPPLING SW, 1/2M WEST | FIRST PART FAIR, LATTER HAZY | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | a trivial correction was made in this observation | 23877 | ||
| 1752-09-16T13:00 | 8.73 | -16.01 | 294 | CAPE ST MARYS | N7:27W | 98 | S58:00E | 56.00 | -10 | SBW, SWBS, NEBN, NWBW | FIRST PART LITTLE WIND | FIRST PART HAZY, LATTER PART FAIR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | a trivial correction was made in this observation | 23878 | ||||
| 1752-09-17T13:00 | 8.38 | -15.09 | 350 | CAPE ST MARYS | N16:26W | 108 | S69:00E | 59.00 | -10 | SW, W, NWBW, N | FIRST PART MODERATE, LATTER PART SQUALLY | LIGHTNING | FAIR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | a trivial correction was made in this observation | 23879 |