García-Herrera, Ricardo; Können, Gunther P; Wheeler, Dennis A; Prieto, Maria del Rosario; Jones, Philip D; Koek, Frits B (2010): Meteorological observations during HECTOR cruise from St. Helena to Blackwall started at 1754-01-16 [dataset]. British Library, London, United Kingdom, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.749552, 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: -7.740000 * Median Longitude: -13.715000 * South-bound Latitude: -15.100000 * West-bound Longitude: -21.370000 * North-bound Latitude: -0.470000 * East-bound Longitude: -6.620000
Date/Time Start: 1754-01-16T12:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1754-01-29T13:00:00
Event(s):
Hector_17540116_BL_L/MAR/B/486A * Latitude Start: -15.890000 * Longitude Start: -5.750000 * Latitude End: 48.930000 * Longitude End: -7.600000 * Date/Time Start: 1754-01-16T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1754-01-29T00:00:00 * Campaign: Cliwoc_cruise * Method/Device: Underway cruise track measurements (CT) * Comment: Ship: Hector, Voyage: St Helena - Blackwall Uk, 1st Observer: Stephen Kirwan (Captain), Company: EIC, Other ship information: 26G 499BM
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 | Course | Course | Course of the ship during the past 24 hours | |||
| 8 | Distance | Distance | arbitrary units | Distance travelled during the previous 24 hours | ||
| 9 | 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. | ||
| 10 | 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. | |||
| 11 | Wind force description | Wind force descr | All reported wind forces on this day | |||
| 12 | Present weather | ww | Weather description | |||
| 13 | Precipitation description | Precip descr | ||||
| 14 | State of the sea description | State sea descr | ||||
| 15 | Clearness | Clearness | ||||
| 16 | Gusts | Gusts | 1 If wind gusts are reported | |||
| 17 | Precipitation/Rain | Rain | 1 If rain was reported | |||
| 18 | Fog | Fog | 1 If fog was reported | |||
| 19 | Snow type | Snow | 1 If snow was reported | |||
| 20 | Thunder | Thunder | 1 If thunder and or lightning was reported | |||
| 21 | Hail | Hail | 1 If hail was reported | |||
| 22 | Sea ice | Sea ice | 1 If sea-ice or icebergs were reported | |||
| 23 | Identification | ID | CLIWOC 2.1 line number |
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
Size:
239 data points
Data
| 1 Date/Time | 2 Latitude | 3 Longitude | 4 dd [deg] | 5 ff [m/s] | 6 Landmark | 7 Course | 8 Distance [arbitrary units] | 9 Decl [deg] | 10 Wind dir descr | 11 Wind force descr | 12 ww | 13 Precip descr | 14 State sea descr | 15 Clearness | 16 Gusts | 17 Rain | 18 Fog | 19 Snow | 20 Thunder | 21 Hail | 22 Sea ice | 23 ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1754-01-16T12:00 | -15.10 | -6.62 | 124 | 4.6 | ST HELENA | N46W | 77.00 | -11 | SE, SE | GENTLE TRADE | CLOUDY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 108572 | |||
| 1754-01-17T13:00 | -13.85 | -7.58 | 171 | ST HELENA | N44W | 84.00 | -9 | SE, NE, S, S | MAJOR PART FAIR WITH A LIGHT TRADE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 108573 | |||||
| 1754-01-18T13:00 | -12.75 | -8.53 | 137 | 4.6 | ST HELENA | N44W | 82.00 | -9 | SE, SEBS, SEBS | GENTLE TRADE | MOSTLY FAIR WEATHER | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 108574 | |||
| 1754-01-19T13:00 | -11.72 | -9.43 | 136 | 6.1 | ST HELENA | N43W | 9.00 | -10 | SEBS, SE, SEBS, SEBS | VERY LIGHT TRADE | FAIR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 108575 | |||
| 1754-01-20T13:00 | -10.67 | -10.32 | 136 | ST HELENA | NW1/4N | 79.00 | -10 | SE, SEBS, SSE, SEBS, SEBS | FIRST AND MIDDLE LITTLE WIND, IN THE MORNING FRESHENED | FIRST AND MIDDLE PART FAIR | IN THE MORNING SMALL RAIN | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 108576 | |||
| 1754-01-21T13:00 | -9.47 | -11.40 | 125 | 6.7 | ST HELENA | NW1/4N | 97.00 | -10 | SEBS, SE, SE | LIGHT TRADE | FAIR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 108577 | |||
| 1754-01-22T13:00 | -8.40 | -12.52 | 128 | 6.7 | ST HELENA | N49W | 89.00 | -7 | SE, SEBS, EBS, SE, SE | LIGHT TRADE | FAIR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 108578 | |||
| 1754-01-23T13:00 | -7.20 | -13.45 | 116 | 9.3 | ST HELENA | N40W | 88.00 | -8 | SEBE, SEBE | MODERATE TRADE | OVERCAST | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 108579 | |||
| 1754-01-24T13:00 | -5.88 | -15.85 | 127 | 9.3 | ASCENSION | N35W | 156.00 | -8 | SE, SE | MODERATE TRADE | IN THE NIGHT FAIR | FIRST AND LATTER PART CLOUDY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 108580 | ||
| 1754-01-25T13:00 | -4.58 | -16.97 | 138 | 4.6 | ASCENSION | N42W | 100.00 | -8 | SEBS, SEBS | GENTLE CONSTANT TRADE | HAZY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 108581 | |||
| 1754-01-26T13:00 | -3.67 | -18.22 | 130 | 6.7 | ASCENSION | N53W | 95.00 | -5 | SEBS, SSE, SEBS, SE, SE | LATTER A LIGHT TRADE | FIRST PART FAIR, THE LATTER CLOUDY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 108582 | |||
| 1754-01-27T13:00 | -2.77 | -19.30 | 141 | 4.6 | ASCENSION | N52W | 83.00 | -5 | SEBS, SEBS | MAJOR PART A FAINT TRADE | SOME LIGHT SHOWERS | MAJOR PART CLOUDY | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 108583 | ||
| 1754-01-28T13:00 | -1.83 | -20.45 | 152 | 4.6 | ASCENSION | NW1/2W | 89.00 | -6 | SEBS, SSE, SSE | GENTLE TRADE | SMOOTH WATER | FIRST PART FAIR, THE LATTER CLOUDY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 108584 | ||
| 1754-01-29T13:00 | -0.47 | -21.37 | 140 | 9.3 | ASCENSION | NW1/4N | 92.00 | -6 | SEBS, SEBS | MODERATE TRADE | FOR THE MOST PART CLOUDY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 108585 |