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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 FAIRY cruise from Cork to Carlise Bay started at 1803-11-14 [dataset]. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, United Kingdom, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.749268, 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: 27.310270 * Median Longitude: -27.408378 * South-bound Latitude: 12.880000 * West-bound Longitude: -57.520000 * North-bound Latitude: 50.470000 * East-bound Longitude: -9.450000
Date/Time Start: 1803-11-14T13:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1803-12-20T16:00:00
Event(s):
Fairy_18031114_NMM_ADM/L/F1 * Latitude Start: 50.630000 * Longitude Start: -10.420000 * Latitude End: 13.000000 * Longitude End: -60.150000 * Date/Time Start: 1803-11-14T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1803-12-20T00:00:00 * Campaign: Cliwoc_cruise * Method/Device: Underway cruise track measurements (CT) * Comment: Ship: Fairy (Sloop), Voyage: Cork - Carlise Bay Barbados, 1st Observer: Lord William Fitzroy (Captain), Company: Royal Navy, Other ship information: 14G 300BM
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 Precipitation descriptionPrecip descr
16 State of the sea descriptionState sea descr
17 ClearnessClearness
18 GustsGusts1 If wind gusts are reported
19 Precipitation/RainRain1 If rain was reported
20 FogFog1 If fog was reported
21 Snow typeSnow1 If snow was reported
22 ThunderThunder1 If thunder and or lightning was reported
23 HailHail1 If hail was reported
24 Sea iceSea ice1 If sea-ice or icebergs were reported
25 IdentificationIDCLIWOC 2.1 line number
Size:
706 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 
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 
ID
(CLIWOC 2.1 line number)
1803-11-14T13:0050.47-9.452679.3CAPE FINNISTERRES1E152S23W75.00-26WNWFRESH BREEZESCLOUDY000000092972
1803-11-15T13:0049.70-9.582449.3CAPE FINNISTERRES2E137S6W50.00-26WFRESH BREEZESCLOUDY000000092973
1803-11-16T13:0047.83-11.403621.0CAPE FINNISTERRES17E103S33W134.00-26VARIABLELIGHT AIRS INCLINABLE TO CALM000000092974
1803-11-17T13:0046.78-11.602699.3CAPE FINNISTERRES22E84S6W89.00-24WNWFRESH BREEZESCLOUDY000000092975
1803-11-18T13:0045.48-13.133629.3PORTO SANCTOS12W255S39W101.00-25VARIABLEFRESH BREEZESCLOUDY000000092976
1803-11-19T13:0044.00-14.706522.6PORTO SANCTOS7W223S37W112.00-25ESTRONG GALESHEAVY SWELLTHICK000000092977
1803-11-20T13:0041.90-15.773609.3PORTO SANCTOS4W179S20W133.00-23NNEFRESH BREEZESCLOUDY000000092978
1803-11-21T13:0040.50-14.933629.3PORTO SANCTOS9W151S24E93.00-23VARIABLEFRESH BREEZESCLOUDY000000092979
1803-11-22T13:0039.28-14.5723619.0PORTO SANCTOS13W129S13E74.00-23WBSFRESH GALESRAINYTHICK010000092980
1803-11-23T13:0037.88-14.252709.3PORTO SANCTOS20W104S10E86.00-23WNWFRESH BREEZESCLOUDY000000092981
1803-11-24T13:0036.80-14.273392.6PORTO SANCTOS25W81S1W65.00-21NLIGHT BREEZESCLOUDY000000092982
1803-11-25T13:0035.08-14.37476.7EIGHT STONESS44W55S11W121.00-21ENEMODERATE BREEZESFINE000000092983
1803-11-26T13:0032.57-15.85699.3MADEIRA, EE25S15W156.00-21EFRESH BREEZESCLOUDY000000092984
1803-11-27T13:0030.53-16.35709.3SALVAGESS30E13S12W125.00-20EFRESH BREEZESFINE000000092985
1803-11-28T13:0029.05-17.88496.7PALMASWBW10-19ENEMODERATE BREEZESFINE000000092986
1803-11-29T13:0027.93-19.403629.3BARBADOSS9W810S66W96.00-19VARIABLEFRESH BREEZESCLOUDY000000092987
1803-11-30T13:0026.70-20.78502.6BARBADOSS9W773S45W105.00-18ENELIGHT BREEZESPLEASANT AND FINE000000092988
1803-12-01T13:0025.33-22.27726.7BARBADOSS71W731S47W112.00-18EMODERATE BREEZESFINE000000092989
1803-12-02T14:0024.05-24.62976.7BARBADOSS72W687S51W113.00-16ESEMODERATE BREEZESFINE000000092990
1803-12-03T14:0022.83-25.331191.0BARBADOSS73W670S48W113.00-16SELIGHT AIRSFINE000000092991
1803-12-04T14:0021.75-26.77756.7BARBADOSS74W648S48W101.00-15EMODERATE BREEZESFINE000000092992
1803-12-05T14:0020.67-28.13566.7BARBADOSS76W624S51W100.00-12ENEMODERATE BREEZESCLOUDY000000092993
1803-12-06T14:0019.83-29.82566.7BARBADOSS77W597S62W104.00-12ENEMODERATE BREEZESFINE000000092994
1803-12-07T14:0019.00-31.371236.7BARBADOSS78W544S62W106.00-12SEMODERATE BREEZESFINE000000092995
1803-12-08T14:0018.20-33.371036.7BARBADOSS79W512S67W123.00-10ESEMODERATE BREEZESFINE000000092996
1803-12-09T14:0017.30-35.72829.3BARBADOSS80W469S68W135.00-8EFRESH BREEZESFINE000000092997
1803-12-10T15:0016.62-37.67846.7BARBADOSS80W428S69W122.00-6EMODERATE BREEZESFINE000000092998
1803-12-11T15:0016.12-39.03842.6BARBADOSS81W388S72W87.00-6ELIGHT BREEZESFINE000000092999
1803-12-12T15:0015.80-39.871292.6BARBADOSS82W373S72W50.00-6SELIGHT BREEZESFINE000000093000
1803-12-13T15:0015.30-41.18841.0BARBADOSS83W350S73W88.00-6ELIGHT AIRSFINE000000093001
1803-12-14T15:0014.83-43.651109.3BARBADOSS84W320S73W88.00-3ESEFRESH BREEZESFINE AND PLEASANT000000093002
1803-12-15T15:0014.32-44.60656.7BARBADOSS85W276S75W117.00-3ENEMODERATE BREEZESFINE AND PLEASANT000000093003
1803-12-16T15:0013.67-47.22766.7BARBADOSS87W230S76W157.00-3EBNMODERATE BREEZESFOLLOWING SWELLFINE AND PLEASANT000000093004
1803-12-17T15:0013.20-50.08899.3BARBADOSW192S80W171.00-1EFRESH BREEZESCLOUDY000000093005
1803-12-18T16:0013.27-52.58809.3BARBADOSS89W142S89W146.001EBNFRESH BREEZESFINEFOLLOWING SWELL000000093006
1803-12-19T16:0012.88-55.03919.3BARBADOS, STH END OFN87W93S83W144.001EFRESH BREEZESFINEFOLLOWING SWELL000000093007
1803-12-20T16:0013.03-57.52709.3BARBADOS, STH END OFN88W44S85W146.002ENEFRESH BREEZESFOLLOWING SWELLHAZY000000093008