García-Herrera, Ricardo; Können, Gunther P; Wheeler, Dennis A; Prieto, Maria del Rosario; Jones, Philip D; Koek, Frits B (2010): Meteorological observations during FERRET cruise from Port Royal to Spithead started at 1792-09-16 [dataset]. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, United Kingdom, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.749308, 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: 37.987200 * Median Longitude: -43.816400 * South-bound Latitude: 22.530000 * West-bound Longitude: -71.730000 * North-bound Latitude: 49.870000 * East-bound Longitude: -9.730000
Date/Time Start: 1792-09-16T17:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1792-10-10T13:00:00
Event(s):
Ferret_17920916_NMM_ADM/L/F169 * Latitude Start: 17.870000 * Longitude Start: -76.830000 * Latitude End: 50.680000 * Longitude End: -0.960000 * Date/Time Start: 1792-09-16T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1792-10-10T00:00:00 * Campaign: Cliwoc_cruise * Method/Device: Underway cruise track measurements (CT) * Comment: Ship: Ferret (Brig), Voyage: Port Royal - Spithead, 1st Observer: William Nowell (Captain), Company: Royal Navy, Other ship information: 10G 202BM
Parameter(s):
| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DATE/TIME | Date/Time | Geocode | |||
| 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 | Precipitation description | Precip descr | ||||
| 15 | State of the sea description | State sea descr | ||||
| 16 | Clearness | Clearness | ||||
| 17 | Gusts | Gusts | 1 If wind gusts are reported | |||
| 18 | Precipitation/Rain | Rain | 1 If rain was reported | |||
| 19 | Fog | Fog | 1 If fog was reported | |||
| 20 | Snow type | Snow | 1 If snow was reported | |||
| 21 | Thunder | Thunder | 1 If thunder and or lightning was reported | |||
| 22 | Hail | Hail | 1 If hail was reported | |||
| 23 | Sea ice | Sea ice | 1 If sea-ice or icebergs were reported | |||
| 24 | Comment | Comment | ||||
| 25 | Identification | ID | CLIWOC 2.1 line number |
License:
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Size:
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Data
| 1 Date/Time | 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 Precip descr | 15 State sea descr | 16 Clearness | 17 Gusts (1 If wind gusts are reported) | 18 Rain (1 If rain was reported) | 19 Fog (1 If fog was reported) | 20 Snow (1 If snow was reported) | 21 Thunder (1 If thunder and or lightning...) | 22 Hail (1 If hail was reported) | 23 Sea ice (1 If sea-ice or icebergs were...) | 24 Comment | 25 ID (CLIWOC 2.1 line number) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1792-09-16T17:00 | 22.53 | -71.73 | 183 | 1.0 | BERMUDAS | N85E | 215 | N24E | 32.00 | 3 | SEBE, S | LIGHT AIRS INCLINABLE TO CALM | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95375 | ||||
| 1792-09-17T17:00 | 24.15 | -69.85 | 138 | 1.0 | BERMUDAS | N31:53E | 169 | N47E | 114.00 | 3 | SEBE, SE | LIGHT AIRS INCLINABLE TO CALM | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95376 | ||||
| 1792-09-18T17:00 | 24.87 | -69.10 | 116 | 9.3 | BERMUDAS | N31:21E | 115 | N36:52E | 50.00 | 3 | ESE | FRESH BREEZES | CLEAR WEATHER | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95377 | |||
| 1792-09-19T17:00 | 25.68 | -68.17 | 318 | 2.6 | BERMUDAS | N27:30E | 128 | N50E | 77.00 | 3 | NWBW, NW | MODERATE BREEZES, AT 10 PM LIGHT AIRS, AT NOON LIGHT BREEZES | CLOUDY, AT NOON CLEAR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95378 | |||
| 1792-09-20T16:00 | 27.52 | -65.50 | 302 | 9.3 | BERMUDAS | N9:05E | 77 | N52:26E | 181.00 | -2 | WNW, NWBW | FRESH BREEZES, AT NOON SQUALLY, AT NOON FRESH BREEZES | CLOUDY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95379 | |||
| 1792-09-21T16:00 | 29.70 | -62.18 | 301 | 9.3 | BERMUDAS | N54:15W | 59 | N53E | 217.00 | -3 | NW, NWBW | FRESH BREEZES | CLOUDY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95380 | |||
| 1792-09-22T16:00 | 30.78 | -59.18 | 301 | 22.6 | BERMUDAS | N83:30W | 96 | N67:30E | 170.00 | -3 | NNW, NWBW | FRESH GALES, AT NOON STRONG GALES AND SQUALLY | AT NOON HEAVY SEA | CLEAR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95381 | ||
| 1792-09-23T16:00 | 31.55 | -56.98 | 299 | 22.6 | BERMUDAS | N88:05E | 133 | N67:51E | 122.00 | -5 | VARIABLE, NWBW | STRONG GALES AND SQUALLY | AT 8PM RAIN AT TIMES | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95382 | |||
| 1792-09-24T16:00 | 31.53 | -55.68 | 18 | 6.7 | BERMUDAS | S88:31E | 154 | E | 67.00 | -5 | VARIABLE, NNE | FRESH GALES, AT 12 MODERATE | CLOUDY, AT 12 CLEAR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95383 | |||
| 1792-09-25T16:00 | 33.32 | -53.32 | 59 | 6.7 | BERMUDAS | S75:29W | 160 | N20:06E | 107.00 | -9 | VARIABLE, EBS, ENE | FRESH BREEZES, AT NOON MODERATE BREEZES | CLOUDY, AT NOON CLEAR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95384 | |||
| 1792-09-26T16:00 | 35.15 | -52.85 | 137 | 6.7 | CORVO | S75:40E | 341 | N37:37E | 187.00 | -9 | VARIABLE, SSE, SEBS | MODERATE BREEZES, AT 3PM SQUALLY, AT 5 MODERATE | CLOUDY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | a trivial correction was made in this observation | 95385 | ||
| 1792-09-27T15:00 | 37.65 | -51.40 | 165 | 9.3 | CORVO | N82:37E | 316 | N38:00E | 191.00 | -15 | SEBS, SBW, S | MODERATE BREEZES, AT 3PM SQUALLY, AT 5 MODERATE, AT NOON FRESH BREEZES | AT NOON CLOUDY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95386 | |||
| 1792-09-28T15:00 | 40.00 | -47.43 | 164 | 19.0 | CORVO | N88:32E | 247 | N52:44E | 231.00 | -16 | SSW, S | FRESH BREEZES, AT 8PM SQUALLY, AT 12 FRESH GALES | CLEAR, AT 12 CLOUDY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95387 | |||
| 1792-09-29T15:00 | 40.93 | -45.73 | 344 | 19.0 | CORVO | S81:13E | 212 | N62:18E | 123.00 | -16 | SBE, N | FRESH GALES AND SQUALLY | AT 12 A HEAVY SEA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95388 | |||
| 1792-09-30T15:00 | 41.90 | -42.07 | 298 | 6.7 | CORVO | S74:43E | 168 | N66:36E | 146.00 | -17 | NBW, NW | STRONG GALES AND SQUALLY, AT 5 MORE MODERATE, AT NOON MODERATE | HEAVY SEA | AT NOON CLOUDY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95389 | ||
| 1792-10-01T15:00 | 43.08 | -39.35 | 293 | 9.3 | CORVO | S60:31E | 105 | N59:23E | 139.00 | -22 | WBS, SW, NW | LIGHT AIRS, AT NOON FRESH BREEZES | HEAVY SWELL FROM THE NW | CLOUDY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95390 | ||
| 1792-10-02T14:00 | 44.57 | -34.68 | 181 | 9.3 | CORVO | S26:59E | 109 | N66:15E | 221.00 | -22 | SW, SSW | MODERATE BREEZES, AT NOON FRESH BREEZES | CLOUDY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95391 | |||
| 1792-10-03T14:00 | 45.93 | -29.98 | 225 | 9.3 | LIZARD | N76:22E | 348 | N67:30E | 215.00 | -23 | WBS, W, WSW | FRESH BREEZES | HAZY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95392 | |||
| 1792-10-04T14:00 | 46.43 | -26.68 | 258 | 2.6 | LIZARD | N76:19E | 294 | N77:44E | 141.00 | -23 | VARIABLE, NEBN, WBN | FRESH BREEZES, AT NOON LIGHT BREEZES | CLOUDY, AT NOON CLEAR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95393 | |||
| 1792-10-05T14:00 | 47.23 | -23.10 | 360 | 9.3 | LIZARD | N77:01E | 242 | N71:58E | 155.00 | -23 | SW, WBN, NBW, NNE | LIGHT BREEZES, AT 4PM CALM, AT NOON FRESH BREEZES | CLEAR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95394 | |||
| 1792-10-06T13:00 | 47.92 | -18.67 | 300 | 6.7 | LIZARD | N77:00E | 181 | N77:6E | 184.00 | -26 | NBW, VARIABLE, NE, NWBN | FRESH BREEZES, AT 4 FRESH GALES AND SQUALLY, AT 8PM STRONG GALES AND SQUALLY, AT 6 MORE MODERATE | CLOUDY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95395 | |||
| 1792-10-07T13:00 | 48.37 | -16.13 | 19 | 9.3 | LIZARD | N78:15E | 145 | N69:42E | 106.00 | -26 | VARIABLE, NBW, NE | FRESH BREEZES | CLOUDY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95396 | |||
| 1792-10-08T13:00 | 49.40 | -13.15 | 312 | 19.0 | LIZARD | N83:52E | 103 | N66:13E | 129.00 | -26 | N, NBE, NNW | LIGHT AIRS, AT 1/2 PAST 11 SQUALLY, AT 12 FRESH GALES | HAZY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95397 | |||
| 1792-10-09T13:00 | 49.87 | -12.77 | 199 | 1.0 | LIZARD | N89:01E | 97 | N28:10E | 32.00 | -26 | ESE, SW | LIGHT BREEZES, AT 12 CALM, AT NOON LIGHT AIRS | CLOUDY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95398 | |||
| 1792-10-10T13:00 | 49.62 | -9.73 | 200 | 9.3 | LIZARD | N83:27E | 58 | S82:49E | 120.00 | -25 | NNW, NWBN, SW | LIGHT BREEZES, AT 10 FRESH BREEZES, AT NOON FRESH BREEZES | CLOUDY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95399 |