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García-Herrera, Ricardo; Können, Gunther P; Wheeler, Dennis A; Prieto, Maria del Rosario; Jones, Philip D; Koek, Frits B (2010): Meteorological observations during Deal Castle cruise from Off Newfoundland started at 1776-05-13 [dataset]. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, United Kingdom, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.748455, 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
Funding:
Fifth Framework Programme (FP5), grant/award no. EVK2-CT-2000-00090: Climatological Database for the Worlds Oceans: 1750-1854
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 44.837143 * Median Longitude: -50.067143 * South-bound Latitude: 44.100000 * West-bound Longitude: -51.150000 * North-bound Latitude: 47.000000 * East-bound Longitude: -49.370000
Date/Time Start: 1776-05-12T15:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1776-05-25T15:00:00
Event(s):
Deal_Castle_NMM_ADM/L/D26B * Latitude Start: 47.000000 * Longitude Start: -51.150000 * Latitude End: 44.480000 * Longitude End: -49.770000 * Date/Time Start: 1776-05-12T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1776-05-25T00:00:00 * Campaign: Cliwoc_cruise * Method/Device: Underway cruise track measurements (CT) * Comment: Ship: Deal Castle (6th Rate Frigate), Voyage from: Off Newfoundland, 1st Observer: James Chads (Captain), Company: Royal Navy, Other ship information: 20G 400BM
Parameter(s):
#NameShort NameUnitPrincipal InvestigatorMethod/DeviceComment
DATE/TIMEDate/TimeGeocode
LATITUDELatitudeGeocode
LONGITUDELongitudeGeocode
Wind directiondddegWind 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.
Wind speedffm/scalculated from the descriptive terms of wind force given in the observations
LandmarkLandmarkName of first landmark
BearingBearingBearing of the first landmark
Distance to landmarkDistancearbitrary unitsDistance to the first landmark
CourseCourseCourse of the ship during the past 24 hours
10 DistanceDistancearbitrary unitsDistance travelled during the previous 24 hours
11 DeclinationDecldegIt 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 descriptionWind dir descrAll reported wind directions on this day. The wind direction is the direction that points to where the wind comes from.
13 Wind force descriptionWind force descrAll reported wind forces on this day
14 Present weatherwwWeather description
15 ClearnessClearness
16 GustsGusts1 If wind gusts are reported
17 Precipitation/RainRain1 If rain was reported
18 FogFog1 If fog was reported
19 Snow typeSnow1 If snow was reported
20 ThunderThunder1 If thunder and or lightning was reported
21 HailHail1 If hail was reported
22 Sea iceSea ice1 If sea-ice or icebergs were reported
23 IdentificationIDCLIWOC 2.1 line number
Size:
261 data points

Data

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Date/Time

Latitude

Longitude

dd [deg]
(Wind direction (from which th...)

ff [m/s]
(calculated from the descripti...)

Landmark
(Name of first landmark)

Bearing
(Bearing of the first landmark)

Distance [arbitrary units]
(Distance to the first landmark)

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 
Clearness
16 
Gusts
(1 If wind gusts are reported)
17 
Rain
(1 If rain was reported)
18 
Fog
(1 If fog was reported)
19 
Snow
(1 If snow was reported)
20 
Thunder
(1 If thunder and or lightning...)
21 
Hail
(1 If hail was reported)
22 
Sea ice
(1 If sea-ice or icebergs were...)
23 
ID
(CLIWOC 2.1 line number)
1776-05-12T15:0047.00-51.1536222.6CAPE SPEARN63W22S63E67.00-17VARIABLEFIRST PART MODERATE, LATTER STRONG GALES AND SQUALLYFIRST PART FAIR000000049181
1776-05-13T15:0046.08-50.422986.7CAPE SPEARNW43S29E63.00-17SW-NWFIRST PART STRONG GALES AND SQUALLY, LATTER MODERATELATTER CLOUDY000000049182
1776-05-14T15:0045.25-49.373626.7CAPE SPEARNW64S42E66.00-17VARIABLEMODERATEFAIR000000049183
1776-05-15T15:0044.75-49.84141CAPE SPEARNWBN67S34W36.00-17SW-SSEFIRST PART CLEAR, LATTER HAZY000000049184
1776-05-16T15:0044.68-50.00732.6CAPE SPEARN32W68SW10.00-17ELITTLE WINDTHICK000000049185
1776-05-17T15:0044.61-50.122532.6CAPE SPEARN33W61N18W21.00-17SBW, WLITTLE WINDTHICK000000049186
1776-05-18T15:0044.53-50.07362CAPE SPEARN31W70S1/2E20.00-17VARIABLEFOGGY AND CHANGEABLE001000049187
1776-05-19T15:0044.32-49.953621.0CAPE SPEARN28W76S15E21.00-17VARIABLEFIRST PART STRONG GALES, LATTER LIGHT AIRSLATTER CLOSE000000049188
1776-05-20T15:0044.10-49.843326.7CAPE SPEARN29W79SE7.00-17EBS, NBWFIRST AND LATTER PARTS MODERATE, MIDDLE STRONG GALES AND SQUALLYFIRST AND LATTER PARTS CLOUDY000000049189
1776-05-21T15:0044.30-49.953626.7CAPE SPEARN29W73N26W12.00-17VARIABLEMODERATEFAIR000000049190
1776-05-22T15:0044.67-50.2925319.0CAPE SPEARN29W65N32W26.00-17WFRESH GALESCLOUDY000000049191
1776-05-23T15:0044.50-50.022536.7CAPE SPEARN30W70SE16.00-17WFIRST PART MODERATE, MIDDLE FRESH GALES, LATTER MODERATEFIRST PART FAIR, LATTER CLOUDY000000049192
1776-05-24T15:0044.45-50.15253CAPE SPEARN29W68S64W7.00-17WFIRST PART MODERATELATTER FOGGYFIRST PART FAIR001000049193
1776-05-25T15:0044.48-49.773211.0CAPE SPEARN32W71E16.00-17NNWLIGHT AIRS001000049194